gosser des poils de grenouille

/\ɡɔ.se de pwal də ɡʁə.nuj\/ verb

Letters

30 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

gosser des poils de grenouille is aFrenchverb. It means: Couper les cheveux en quatre, pinailler. Pronounced \ɡɔ.se de pwal də ɡʁə.nuj\.

Key facts for gosser des poils de grenouille
PropertyValue
Headwordgosser des poils de grenouille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɡɔ.se de pwal də ɡʁə.nuj\
Letters30
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

gosser des poils de grenouille 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 gosser des poils de grenouille is 30 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɔ.se de pwal də ɡʁə.nuj\. 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: "Couper les cheveux en quatre, pinailler.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gosser des poils de grenouille 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 gosser des poils de grenouille, spelled G-O-S-S-E-R- -D-E-S- -P-O-I-L-S- -D-E- -G-R-E-N-O-U-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Couper les cheveux en quatre, pinailler.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gosser des poils de grenouille"?
"gosser des poils de grenouille" is spelled G-O-S-S-E-R- -D-E-S- -P-O-I-L-S- -D-E- -G-R-E-N-O-U-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡɔ.se de pwal də ɡʁə.nuj\.
What does "gosser des poils de grenouille" mean?
As a verb, "gosser des poils de grenouille" means: Couper les cheveux en quatre, pinailler.
How do you pronounce "gosser des poils de grenouille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gosser des poils de grenouille" is \ɡɔ.se de pwal də ɡʁə.nuj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.