être en tort
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12 characters
Language
French
word origin
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être en tort is aFrenchverb. It means: Avoir tort, ne pas avoir raison, se tromper. Pronounced \ɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.tɔʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | être en tort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for être en tort is 12 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.tɔʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être en tort 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 en tort, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -E-N- -T-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Avoir tort, ne pas avoir raison, se tromper.
- 2Dans une affaire, une dispute, un litige, être la partie qui a commis une faute, un tort.
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