être de son temps

/\ɛtʁ də sɔ̃ tɑ̃\/ verb

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

être de son temps is aFrenchverb. It means: Être bien adapté à l'esprit et aux idées de son époque. Pronounced \ɛtʁ də sɔ̃ tɑ̃\.

Key facts for être de son temps
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre de son temps
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛtʁ də sɔ̃ tɑ̃\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être de son temps 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 temps is 17 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛtʁ də sɔ̃ tɑ̃\. 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 bien adapté à l'esprit et aux idées de son époque.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Être bien adapté à l'esprit et aux idées de son époque.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être de son temps"?
"être de son temps" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -D-E- -S-O-N- -T-E-M-P-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛtʁ də sɔ̃ tɑ̃\.
What does "être de son temps" mean?
As a verb, "être de son temps" means: Être bien adapté à l'esprit et aux idées de son époque.
How do you pronounce "être de son temps"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être de son temps" is \ɛtʁ də sɔ̃ tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être de son temps" 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.