être dans le rouge

/\ɛ.tʁə dɑ̃ lə ʁuʒ\/ verb

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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être dans le rouge is aFrenchverb. It means: Avoir un solde débiteur à la banque, être endetté. Pronounced \ɛ.tʁə dɑ̃ lə ʁuʒ\.

Key facts for être dans le rouge
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre dans le rouge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ.tʁə dɑ̃ lə ʁuʒ\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être dans le rouge 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 dans le rouge is 18 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁə dɑ̃ lə ʁuʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être dans le rouge 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 dans le rouge, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -R-O-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Avoir un solde débiteur à la banque, être endetté.
  2. 2
    être en déficit
  3. 3
    Être déconsidéré par ses pairs ou par son supérieur hiérarchique.
  4. 4
    être dans un environnement (paysage, régime moteur) de couleur rouge
  5. 5
    indicateur subjectif par arbitrage

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être dans le rouge"?
"être dans le rouge" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -R-O-U-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.tʁə dɑ̃ lə ʁuʒ\.
What does "être dans le rouge" mean?
As a verb, "être dans le rouge" means: Avoir un solde débiteur à la banque, être endetté.
How do you pronounce "être dans le rouge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être dans le rouge" is \ɛ.tʁə dɑ̃ lə ʁuʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être dans le rouge" 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.