jouer cartes sur table
\ʒwe kaʁ.tə syʁ tabl\
The verdict
“jouer cartes sur table” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ne pas dissimuler le motif pour lequel on agit, ne pas cacher les moyens dont on fait usage dans une affaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jouer cartes sur table |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒwe kaʁ.tə syʁ tabl\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jouer cartes sur table” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jouer cartes sur table is 22 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwe kaʁ.tə syʁ tabl\. 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: "Ne pas dissimuler le motif pour lequel on agit, ne pas cacher les moyens dont on fait usage dans une affaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jouer cartes sur table 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 jouer cartes sur table, spelled J-O-U-E-R- -C-A-R-T-E-S- -S-U-R- -T-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne pas dissimuler le motif pour lequel on agit, ne pas cacher les moyens dont on fait usage dans une affaire.
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- The one correct French spelling is J-O-U-E-R- -C-A-R-T-E-S- -S-U-R- -T-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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