être dans les jambes

/\ɛtʁ dɑ̃ le ʒɑ̃b\/ verb

Letters

20 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

être dans les jambes is aFrenchverb. It means: Importuner par sa présence. Pronounced \ɛtʁ dɑ̃ le ʒɑ̃b\.

Key facts for être dans les jambes
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre dans les jambes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛtʁ dɑ̃ le ʒɑ̃b\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être dans les jambes 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 les jambes is 20 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛtʁ dɑ̃ le ʒɑ̃b\. 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: "Importuner par sa présence.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être dans les jambes 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 les jambes, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E-S- -J-A-M-B-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Importuner par sa présence.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être dans les jambes"?
"être dans les jambes" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E-S- -J-A-M-B-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛtʁ dɑ̃ le ʒɑ̃b\.
What does "être dans les jambes" mean?
As a verb, "être dans les jambes" means: Importuner par sa présence.
How do you pronounce "être dans les jambes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être dans les jambes" is \ɛtʁ dɑ̃ le ʒɑ̃b\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être dans les jambes" 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.