la croix de sa mère

/\la kʁwa də sa mɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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Confusables

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similar word pairs

la croix de sa mère is aFrenchnoun. It means: Accessoire utilisé par convention au dénouement d’une pièce de théâtre comme signe de reconnaissance entre certains personnages. Pronounced \la kʁwa də sa mɛʁ\.

Key facts for la croix de sa mère
PropertyValue
Headwordla croix de sa mère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\la kʁwa də sa mɛʁ\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la croix de sa mère is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for la croix de sa mère is 19 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la kʁwa də sa mɛʁ\. 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: "Accessoire utilisé par convention au dénouement d’une pièce de théâtre comme signe de reconnaissance entre certains personnages.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la croix de sa mère 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 la croix de sa mère, spelled L-A- -C-R-O-I-X- -D-E- -S-A- -M-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Accessoire utilisé par convention au dénouement d’une pièce de théâtre comme signe de reconnaissance entre certains personnages.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la croix de sa mère"?
"la croix de sa mère" is spelled L-A- -C-R-O-I-X- -D-E- -S-A- -M-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \la kʁwa də sa mɛʁ\.
What does "la croix de sa mère" mean?
As a noun, "la croix de sa mère" means: Accessoire utilisé par convention au dénouement d’une pièce de théâtre comme signe de reconnaissance entre certains personnages.
How do you pronounce "la croix de sa mère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "la croix de sa mère" is \la kʁwa də sa mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "la croix de sa mère" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.