être près de ses pièces

/\ɛ.tʁə pʁɛ də se pjɛs\/ verb

Letters

23 characters

Language

French

word origin

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0

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être près de ses pièces is aFrenchverb. It means: Se trouver dans une mauvaise passe ; être financièrement démuni. Pronounced \ɛ.tʁə pʁɛ də se pjɛs\.

Key facts for être près de ses pièces
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Headwordêtre près de ses pièces
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ.tʁə pʁɛ də se pjɛs\
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être près de ses pièces 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 près de ses pièces is 23 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁə pʁɛ də se pjɛs\. 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: "Se trouver dans une mauvaise passe ; être financièrement démuni.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être près de ses pièces 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 près de ses pièces, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -P-R-È-S- -D-E- -S-E-S- -P-I-È-C-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se trouver dans une mauvaise passe ; être financièrement démuni.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être près de ses pièces"?
"être près de ses pièces" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -P-R-È-S- -D-E- -S-E-S- -P-I-È-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.tʁə pʁɛ də se pjɛs\.
What does "être près de ses pièces" mean?
As a verb, "être près de ses pièces" means: Se trouver dans une mauvaise passe ; être financièrement démuni.
How do you pronounce "être près de ses pièces"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être près de ses pièces" is \ɛ.tʁə pʁɛ də se pjɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être près de ses pièces" 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.