faire un petit dans le dos

/\fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pə.ti dɑ̃ lə do\/ verb

Letters

26 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

faire un petit dans le dos is aFrenchverb. It means: Gruger quelqu’un, lui faire un mauvais coup, une entourloupe. Pronounced \fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pə.ti dɑ̃ lə do\.

Key facts for faire un petit dans le dos
PropertyValue
Headwordfaire un petit dans le dos
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pə.ti dɑ̃ lə do\
Letters26
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

faire un petit dans le dos 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 faire un petit dans le dos is 26 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pə.ti dɑ̃ lə do\. 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: "Gruger quelqu’un, lui faire un mauvais coup, une entourloupe.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for faire un petit dans le dos 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 faire un petit dans le dos, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -U-N- -P-E-T-I-T- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -D-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gruger quelqu’un, lui faire un mauvais coup, une entourloupe.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faire un petit dans le dos"?
"faire un petit dans le dos" is spelled F-A-I-R-E- -U-N- -P-E-T-I-T- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -D-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pə.ti dɑ̃ lə do\.
What does "faire un petit dans le dos" mean?
As a verb, "faire un petit dans le dos" means: Gruger quelqu’un, lui faire un mauvais coup, une entourloupe.
How do you pronounce "faire un petit dans le dos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faire un petit dans le dos" is \fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pə.ti dɑ̃ lə do\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "faire un petit dans le dos" 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.