gravé dans le marbre

/\ɡʁa.ve dɑ̃ lə maʁbʁ\/ adj

Letters

20 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

gravé dans le marbre is anFrenchadj. It means: Intangible, que personne ne peut ou doit détériorer ni modifier. Pronounced \ɡʁa.ve dɑ̃ lə maʁbʁ\.

Key facts for gravé dans le marbre
PropertyValue
Headwordgravé dans le marbre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɡʁa.ve dɑ̃ lə maʁbʁ\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

gravé dans le marbre 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 gravé dans le marbre is 20 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁa.ve dɑ̃ lə maʁbʁ\. 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: "Intangible, que personne ne peut ou doit détériorer ni modifier.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gravé dans le marbre 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 gravé dans le marbre, spelled G-R-A-V-É- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -M-A-R-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Intangible, que personne ne peut ou doit détériorer ni modifier.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gravé dans le marbre"?
"gravé dans le marbre" is spelled G-R-A-V-É- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -M-A-R-B-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁa.ve dɑ̃ lə maʁbʁ\.
What does "gravé dans le marbre" mean?
As an adj, "gravé dans le marbre" means: Intangible, que personne ne peut ou doit détériorer ni modifier.
How do you pronounce "gravé dans le marbre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gravé dans le marbre" is \ɡʁa.ve dɑ̃ lə maʁbʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gravé dans le marbre" 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.