garder les cuisses propres

\ɡaʁ.de le kɥis pʁɔpʁ\

/\ɡaʁ.de le kɥis pʁɔpʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“garder les cuisses propres” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
26
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se tirer d’une situation sans trop de dommages, de pertes.

Key facts for garder les cuisses propres
PropertyValue
Headwordgarder les cuisses propres
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɡaʁ.de le kɥis pʁɔpʁ\
Letters26
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “garder les cuisses propres” sits in French frequency

garder les cuisses propres falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for garder les cuisses propres is 26 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.de le kɥis pʁɔpʁ\. 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: "Se tirer d’une situation sans trop de dommages, de pertes.".

No misspelling variants are generated for garder les cuisses propres 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 garder les cuisses propres, spelled G-A-R-D-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-U-I-S-S-E-S- -P-R-O-P-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se tirer d’une situation sans trop de dommages, de pertes.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "garder les cuisses propres"?
"garder les cuisses propres" is spelled G-A-R-D-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-U-I-S-S-E-S- -P-R-O-P-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡaʁ.de le kɥis pʁɔpʁ\.
What does "garder les cuisses propres" mean?
As a verb, "garder les cuisses propres" means: Se tirer d’une situation sans trop de dommages, de pertes.
How do you pronounce "garder les cuisses propres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "garder les cuisses propres" is \ɡaʁ.de le kɥis pʁɔpʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “garder les cuisses propres”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is G-A-R-D-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-U-I-S-S-E-S- -P-R-O-P-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ɡaʁ.de le kɥis pʁɔpʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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