être plus catholique que le pape

/\ɛ.tʁə ply ka.tɔ.lik kə lə pap\/ verb

Letters

32 characters

Language

French

word origin

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être plus catholique que le pape is aFrenchverb. It means: Défendre les intérêts de quelqu’un avec plus de zèle que la personne concernée. Pronounced \ɛ.tʁə ply ka.tɔ.lik kə lə pap\.

Key facts for être plus catholique que le pape
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre plus catholique que le pape
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ.tʁə ply ka.tɔ.lik kə lə pap\
Letters32
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être plus catholique que le pape 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 plus catholique que le pape is 32 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁə ply ka.tɔ.lik kə lə pap\. 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 plus catholique que le pape 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 plus catholique que le pape, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -P-L-U-S- -C-A-T-H-O-L-I-Q-U-E- -Q-U-E- -L-E- -P-A-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Défendre les intérêts de quelqu’un avec plus de zèle que la personne concernée.
  2. 2
    Être extrémiste dans ses pensées ou dans ses actions.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être plus catholique que le pape"?
"être plus catholique que le pape" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -P-L-U-S- -C-A-T-H-O-L-I-Q-U-E- -Q-U-E- -L-E- -P-A-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.tʁə ply ka.tɔ.lik kə lə pap\.
What does "être plus catholique que le pape" mean?
As a verb, "être plus catholique que le pape" means: Défendre les intérêts de quelqu’un avec plus de zèle que la personne concernée.
How do you pronounce "être plus catholique que le pape"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être plus catholique que le pape" is \ɛ.tʁə ply ka.tɔ.lik kə lə pap\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être plus catholique que le pape" 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.