être au septième ciel

/\ɛ.tʁ‿o sɛ.tjɛm sjɛl\/ verb

Letters

21 characters

Language

French

word origin

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être au septième ciel is aFrenchverb. It means: Éprouver une très vive satisfaction, se trouver parfaitement heureux. Pronounced \ɛ.tʁ‿o sɛ.tjɛm sjɛl\.

Key facts for être au septième ciel
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Headwordêtre au septième ciel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ.tʁ‿o sɛ.tjɛm sjɛl\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être au septième ciel is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for être au septième ciel is 21 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁ‿o sɛ.tjɛm sjɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Éprouver une très vive satisfaction, se trouver parfaitement heureux.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être au septième ciel in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is être au septième ciel, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -A-U- -S-E-P-T-I-È-M-E- -C-I-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Éprouver une très vive satisfaction, se trouver parfaitement heureux.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être au septième ciel"?
"être au septième ciel" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -A-U- -S-E-P-T-I-È-M-E- -C-I-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.tʁ‿o sɛ.tjɛm sjɛl\.
What does "être au septième ciel" mean?
As a verb, "être au septième ciel" means: Éprouver une très vive satisfaction, se trouver parfaitement heureux.
How do you pronounce "être au septième ciel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être au septième ciel" is \ɛ.tʁ‿o sɛ.tjɛm sjɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.