garder son sang-froid
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21 characters
Language
French
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garder son sang-froid is aFrenchverb. It means: Rester maître de soi ; ne pas se laisser déborder par les circonstances. Pronounced \ɡaʁ.de sɔ̃ sɑ̃.fʁwa\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garder son sang-froid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.de sɔ̃ sɑ̃.fʁwa\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for garder son sang-froid is 21 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.de sɔ̃ sɑ̃.fʁwa\. 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 garder son sang-froid 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 son sang-froid, spelled G-A-R-D-E-R- -S-O-N- -S-A-N-G---F-R-O-I-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rester maître de soi ; ne pas se laisser déborder par les circonstances.
- 2Garder sa présence d’esprit.
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