faute de grives on mange des merles
Letters
35 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
faute de grives on mange des merles is aFrenchphrase. It means: Faute d’avoir ce que l’on souhaite, il faut se contenter de ce que l’on a. Pronounced \fot də ɡʁi.v‿ɔ̃ mɑ̃ʒ de mɛʁl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faute de grives on mange des merles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \fot də ɡʁi.v‿ɔ̃ mɑ̃ʒ de mɛʁl\ |
| Letters | 35 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for faute de grives on mange des merles is 35 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fot də ɡʁi.v‿ɔ̃ mɑ̃ʒ de mɛʁl\. 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 faute de grives on mange des merles 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 faute de grives on mange des merles, spelled F-A-U-T-E- -D-E- -G-R-I-V-E-S- -O-N- -M-A-N-G-E- -D-E-S- -M-E-R-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faute d’avoir ce que l’on souhaite, il faut se contenter de ce que l’on a.
- 2Dieu ! que je rirais si elle tombait amoureuse de Marcel ! Faute de grives… Mais je le connais, lui ! c’est un merle qui ne se laissera pas prendre — que dis-je ? une merlette, une merlette blanche ! — (Colette, La Retraite sentimentale, 1907)
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