janvier frileux gèle la merlesse sur les œufs
The verdict
“janvier frileux gèle la merlesse sur les œufs” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: Proverbe de l’Anjou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | janvier frileux gèle la merlesse sur les œufs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.vje fʁi.lø ʒɛl la mɛʁ.lɛs syʁ le.z‿ø\ |
| Letters | 45 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “janvier frileux gèle la merlesse sur les œufs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for janvier frileux gèle la merlesse sur les œufs is 45 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃.vje fʁi.lø ʒɛl la mɛʁ.lɛs syʁ le.z‿ø\. 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: "Proverbe de l’Anjou.".
No misspelling variants are generated for janvier frileux gèle la merlesse sur les œufs 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 janvier frileux gèle la merlesse sur les œufs, spelled J-A-N-V-I-E-R- -F-R-I-L-E-U-X- -G-È-L-E- -L-A- -M-E-R-L-E-S-S-E- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -Œ-U-F-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Proverbe de l’Anjou.
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- The one correct French spelling is J-A-N-V-I-E-R- -F-R-I-L-E-U-X- -G-È-L-E- -L-A- -M-E-R-L-E-S-S-E- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -Œ-U-F-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒɑ̃.vje fʁi.lø ʒɛl la mɛʁ.lɛs syʁ le.z‿ø\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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