être boutonné en jaloux

/\ɛ.tʁə bu.tɔ.ne ɑ̃ ʒa.lu\/ verb

Letters

23 characters

Language

French

word origin

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être boutonné en jaloux is aFrenchverb. It means: Être mal boutonné, avoir décalé boutons et boutonnières. Pronounced \ɛ.tʁə bu.tɔ.ne ɑ̃ ʒa.lu\.

Key facts for être boutonné en jaloux
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre boutonné en jaloux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ.tʁə bu.tɔ.ne ɑ̃ ʒa.lu\
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être boutonné en jaloux 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 boutonné en jaloux is 23 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁə bu.tɔ.ne ɑ̃ ʒa.lu\. 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: "Être mal boutonné, avoir décalé boutons et boutonnières.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être boutonné en jaloux 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 boutonné en jaloux, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -B-O-U-T-O-N-N-É- -E-N- -J-A-L-O-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être mal boutonné, avoir décalé boutons et boutonnières.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être boutonné en jaloux"?
"être boutonné en jaloux" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -B-O-U-T-O-N-N-É- -E-N- -J-A-L-O-U-X. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.tʁə bu.tɔ.ne ɑ̃ ʒa.lu\.
What does "être boutonné en jaloux" mean?
As a verb, "être boutonné en jaloux" means: Être mal boutonné, avoir décalé boutons et boutonnières.
How do you pronounce "être boutonné en jaloux"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être boutonné en jaloux" is \ɛ.tʁə bu.tɔ.ne ɑ̃ ʒa.lu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être boutonné en jaloux" 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.