jambes par-dessus tête
Letters
22 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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jambes par-dessus tête is anFrenchadv. It means: En culbutant, à la renverse, à l’envers.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jambes par-dessus tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jambes par-dessus tête is 22 letters long, classified as anadv. 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: "En culbutant, à la renverse, à l’envers.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jambes par-dessus tête 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 jambes par-dessus tête, spelled J-A-M-B-E-S- -P-A-R---D-E-S-S-U-S- -T-Ê-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En culbutant, à la renverse, à l’envers.
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