hâte-toi lentement

/\a.te.twa lɑ̃t.mɑ̃\/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hâte-toi lentement is aFrenchphrase. It means: Devise paradoxale signifiant qu'il faut se préparer pour aller vite sans erreur. Pronounced \a.te.twa lɑ̃t.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for hâte-toi lentement
PropertyValue
Headwordhâte-toi lentement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\a.te.twa lɑ̃t.mɑ̃\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hâte-toi lentement is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for hâte-toi lentement is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.te.twa lɑ̃t.mɑ̃\. 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: "Devise paradoxale signifiant qu'il faut se préparer pour aller vite sans erreur.".

No misspelling variants are generated for hâte-toi lentement 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 hâte-toi lentement, spelled H-Â-T-E---T-O-I- -L-E-N-T-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Devise paradoxale signifiant qu'il faut se préparer pour aller vite sans erreur.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hâte-toi lentement"?
"hâte-toi lentement" is spelled H-Â-T-E---T-O-I- -L-E-N-T-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.te.twa lɑ̃t.mɑ̃\.
What does "hâte-toi lentement" mean?
As a phrase, "hâte-toi lentement" means: Devise paradoxale signifiant qu'il faut se préparer pour aller vite sans erreur.
How do you pronounce "hâte-toi lentement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hâte-toi lentement" is \a.te.twa lɑ̃t.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hâte-toi lentement" come from?
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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.