être trop d’une bonne chose

/\ɛtʁ tʁo d‿yn bɔn ʃoz\/ verb

Letters

27 characters

Language

French

word origin

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être trop d’une bonne chose is aFrenchverb. It means: Avoir trop d’avantages finit par se retourner contre soi. Pronounced \ɛtʁ tʁo d‿yn bɔn ʃoz\.

Key facts for être trop d’une bonne chose
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Headwordêtre trop d’une bonne chose
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛtʁ tʁo d‿yn bɔn ʃoz\
Letters27
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être trop d’une bonne chose 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 trop d’une bonne chose is 27 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛtʁ tʁo d‿yn bɔn ʃoz\. 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: "Avoir trop d’avantages finit par se retourner contre soi.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être trop d’une bonne chose 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 trop d’une bonne chose, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -T-R-O-P- -D-’-U-N-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -C-H-O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Avoir trop d’avantages finit par se retourner contre soi.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être trop d’une bonne chose"?
"être trop d’une bonne chose" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -T-R-O-P- -D-’-U-N-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -C-H-O-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛtʁ tʁo d‿yn bɔn ʃoz\.
What does "être trop d’une bonne chose" mean?
As a verb, "être trop d’une bonne chose" means: Avoir trop d’avantages finit par se retourner contre soi.
How do you pronounce "être trop d’une bonne chose"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être trop d’une bonne chose" is \ɛtʁ tʁo d‿yn bɔn ʃoz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être trop d’une bonne chose" 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.