être plus catholique que le pape
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | être plus catholique que le pape |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.tʁə ply ka.tɔ.lik kə lə pap\ |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Défendre les intérêts de quelqu’un avec plus de zèle que la personne concernée.
- 2Être extrémiste dans ses pensées ou dans ses actions.
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