être au septième ciel
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | être au septième ciel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.tʁ‿o sɛ.tjɛm sjɛl\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Éprouver une très vive satisfaction, se trouver parfaitement heureux.
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