être de son devoir

/\ɛtʁ də sɔ̃ də.vwaʁ\/ verb

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

être de son devoir is aFrenchverb. It means: Utilisé à la forme impersonnelle, sert à exprimer une obligation morale. Pronounced \ɛtʁ də sɔ̃ də.vwaʁ\.

Key facts for être de son devoir
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre de son devoir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛtʁ də sɔ̃ də.vwaʁ\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être de son devoir 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 de son devoir is 18 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛtʁ də sɔ̃ də.vwaʁ\. 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: "Utilisé à la forme impersonnelle, sert à exprimer une obligation morale.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être de son devoir 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 de son devoir, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -D-E- -S-O-N- -D-E-V-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Utilisé à la forme impersonnelle, sert à exprimer une obligation morale.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être de son devoir"?
"être de son devoir" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -D-E- -S-O-N- -D-E-V-O-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛtʁ də sɔ̃ də.vwaʁ\.
What does "être de son devoir" mean?
As a verb, "être de son devoir" means: Utilisé à la forme impersonnelle, sert à exprimer une obligation morale.
How do you pronounce "être de son devoir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être de son devoir" is \ɛtʁ də sɔ̃ də.vwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être de son devoir" 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.