jeu d’enfant
Letters
12 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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Confusables
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jeu d’enfant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui est très facile à réaliser et sans effort. Pronounced \ʒø d‿ɑ̃.fɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeu d’enfant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒø d‿ɑ̃.fɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for jeu d’enfant is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø d‿ɑ̃.fɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jeu d’enfant 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 jeu d’enfant, spelled J-E-U- -D-’-E-N-F-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui est très facile à réaliser et sans effort.
- 2Désigne les jeux auxquels les enfants s'adonnent typiquement et habituellement de leur propre gré, parfois traditionnels ou inventés par eux, et qui sont souvent collectifs. Note d’usage : Pour éviter la prégnance du sens figuré de cette locution qui est plus fréquent que son sens propre, les locuteurs voulant viser ce sens propre emploient volontiers une locution nominale de substitution : « jeu enfantin ».
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