être comme une pierre dans un mur

/\ɛ.tʁə kɔ.m‿yn pjɛʁ dɑ̃.z‿œ̃ myʁ\/ verb

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Language

French

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être comme une pierre dans un mur is aFrenchverb. It means: Ne pas changer. Pronounced \ɛ.tʁə kɔ.m‿yn pjɛʁ dɑ̃.z‿œ̃ myʁ\.

Key facts for être comme une pierre dans un mur
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre comme une pierre dans un mur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ.tʁə kɔ.m‿yn pjɛʁ dɑ̃.z‿œ̃ myʁ\
Letters33
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être comme une pierre dans un mur 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 comme une pierre dans un mur is 33 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁə kɔ.m‿yn pjɛʁ dɑ̃.z‿œ̃ myʁ\. 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: "Ne pas changer.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être comme une pierre dans un mur 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 comme une pierre dans un mur, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -U-N- -M-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Ne pas changer.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être comme une pierre dans un mur"?
"être comme une pierre dans un mur" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -U-N- -M-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.tʁə kɔ.m‿yn pjɛʁ dɑ̃.z‿œ̃ myʁ\.
What does "être comme une pierre dans un mur" mean?
As a verb, "être comme une pierre dans un mur" means: Ne pas changer.
How do you pronounce "être comme une pierre dans un mur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être comme une pierre dans un mur" is \ɛ.tʁə kɔ.m‿yn pjɛʁ dɑ̃.z‿œ̃ myʁ\. 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.