la faim fait sortir le loup du bois

/\la fɛ̃ fe sɔʁ.tiʁ lə lu dy bwa\/ phrase

Letters

35 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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similar word pairs

la faim fait sortir le loup du bois is aFrenchphrase. It means: Être réduit à user de moyens de vivre contraires à ses gouts ou à son caractère.. Pronounced \la fɛ̃ fe sɔʁ.tiʁ lə lu dy bwa\.

Key facts for la faim fait sortir le loup du bois
PropertyValue
Headwordla faim fait sortir le loup du bois
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\la fɛ̃ fe sɔʁ.tiʁ lə lu dy bwa\
Letters35
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la faim fait sortir le loup du bois 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 faim fait sortir le loup du bois is 35 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la fɛ̃ fe sɔʁ.tiʁ lə lu dy bwa\. 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: "Être réduit à user de moyens de vivre contraires à ses gouts ou à son caractère..".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la faim fait sortir le loup du bois 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 faim fait sortir le loup du bois, spelled L-A- -F-A-I-M- -F-A-I-T- -S-O-R-T-I-R- -L-E- -L-O-U-P- -D-U- -B-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être réduit à user de moyens de vivre contraires à ses gouts ou à son caractère..

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la faim fait sortir le loup du bois"?
"la faim fait sortir le loup du bois" is spelled L-A- -F-A-I-M- -F-A-I-T- -S-O-R-T-I-R- -L-E- -L-O-U-P- -D-U- -B-O-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \la fɛ̃ fe sɔʁ.tiʁ lə lu dy bwa\.
What does "la faim fait sortir le loup du bois" mean?
As a phrase, "la faim fait sortir le loup du bois" means: Être réduit à user de moyens de vivre contraires à ses gouts ou à son caractère..
How do you pronounce "la faim fait sortir le loup du bois"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "la faim fait sortir le loup du bois" is \la fɛ̃ fe sɔʁ.tiʁ lə lu dy bwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "la faim fait sortir le loup du bois" 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.