être aux petits soins

/\ɛ.tʁ‿o pə.ti swɛ̃\/ verb

Letters

21 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

être aux petits soins is aFrenchverb. It means: Avoir auprès de quelqu’un, pour quelqu’un, les attentions les plus délicates, veiller à ce que rien ne lui manque. Pronounced \ɛ.tʁ‿o pə.ti swɛ̃\.

Key facts for être aux petits soins
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Headwordêtre aux petits soins
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ.tʁ‿o pə.ti swɛ̃\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être aux petits soins 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 aux petits soins is 21 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁ‿o pə.ti swɛ̃\. 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: "Avoir auprès de quelqu’un, pour quelqu’un, les attentions les plus délicates, veiller à ce que rien ne lui manque.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être aux petits soins 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 aux petits soins, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -A-U-X- -P-E-T-I-T-S- -S-O-I-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Avoir auprès de quelqu’un, pour quelqu’un, les attentions les plus délicates, veiller à ce que rien ne lui manque.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être aux petits soins"?
"être aux petits soins" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -A-U-X- -P-E-T-I-T-S- -S-O-I-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.tʁ‿o pə.ti swɛ̃\.
What does "être aux petits soins" mean?
As a verb, "être aux petits soins" means: Avoir auprès de quelqu’un, pour quelqu’un, les attentions les plus délicates, veiller à ce que rien ne lui manque.
How do you pronounce "être aux petits soins"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être aux petits soins" is \ɛ.tʁ‿o pə.ti swɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être aux petits soins" come from?
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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.