fa un temps del diable

/\fa un tens del ˈdja.ple\/ verb

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Language

French

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fa un temps del diable is aFrenchverb. It means: Mauvais temps, temps à ne pas mettre un chien dehors, littéralement : il fait un temps du diable. Pronounced \fa un tens del ˈdja.ple\.

Key facts for fa un temps del diable
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Headwordfa un temps del diable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fa un tens del ˈdja.ple\
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fa un temps del diable 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 fa un temps del diable is 22 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa un tens del ˈdja.ple\. 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: "Mauvais temps, temps à ne pas mettre un chien dehors, littéralement : il fait un temps du diable.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fa un temps del diable 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 fa un temps del diable, spelled F-A- -U-N- -T-E-M-P-S- -D-E-L- -D-I-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mauvais temps, temps à ne pas mettre un chien dehors, littéralement : il fait un temps du diable.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fa un temps del diable"?
"fa un temps del diable" is spelled F-A- -U-N- -T-E-M-P-S- -D-E-L- -D-I-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fa un tens del ˈdja.ple\.
What does "fa un temps del diable" mean?
As a verb, "fa un temps del diable" means: Mauvais temps, temps à ne pas mettre un chien dehors, littéralement : il fait un temps du diable.
How do you pronounce "fa un temps del diable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fa un temps del diable" is \fa un tens del ˈdja.ple\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fa un temps del diable" 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.