être marron
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
être marron is aFrenchverb. It means: Être pris sur le fait, en flagrant délit en parlant de voleurs (avec les objets dérobés). Pronounced \ɛ.tʁə ma.ʁɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | être marron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.tʁə ma.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for être marron is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁə ma.ʁɔ̃\. 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 marron 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 marron, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -M-A-R-R-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être pris sur le fait, en flagrant délit en parlant de voleurs (avec les objets dérobés).
- 2Être escroqué, joué, dupé, berné, déçu dans ses espoirs par un concours de circonstances, perdant.
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