jambes en coton
The verdict
“jambes en coton” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Jambes tremblantes qui ont du mal à porter le poids du corps, par suite d’une émotion, d’une maladie ou de la fatigue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jambes en coton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.b‿ɑ̃ kɔ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jambes en coton” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jambes en coton is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃.b‿ɑ̃ kɔ.tɔ̃\. 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: "Jambes tremblantes qui ont du mal à porter le poids du corps, par suite d’une émotion, d’une maladie ou de la fatigue.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jambes en coton 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 jambes en coton, spelled J-A-M-B-E-S- -E-N- -C-O-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jambes tremblantes qui ont du mal à porter le poids du corps, par suite d’une émotion, d’une maladie ou de la fatigue.
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Using “jambes en coton”
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- The one correct French spelling is J-A-M-B-E-S- -E-N- -C-O-T-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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