faire chou blanc
Letters
16 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
faire chou blanc is aFrenchverb. It means: Au jeu de quilles, rater son coup, lancer la boule sans abattre aucune quille. Pronounced \fɛʁ ʃu blɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire chou blanc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ ʃu blɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for faire chou blanc is 16 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ ʃu blɑ̃\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for faire chou blanc in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 faire chou blanc, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -C-H-O-U- -B-L-A-N-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Au jeu de quilles, rater son coup, lancer la boule sans abattre aucune quille.
- 2Subir un échec ; échouer.
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