la ficelle est grosse

/\la fi.sɛ.l‿ɛ ɡʁos\/ phrase

Letters

21 characters

Language

French

word origin

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similar word pairs

la ficelle est grosse is aFrenchphrase. It means: La ruse n’est pas très subtile, il est facile de dévoiler la supercherie ou le mensonge. Pronounced \la fi.sɛ.l‿ɛ ɡʁos\.

Key facts for la ficelle est grosse
PropertyValue
Headwordla ficelle est grosse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\la fi.sɛ.l‿ɛ ɡʁos\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la ficelle est grosse 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 ficelle est grosse is 21 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la fi.sɛ.l‿ɛ ɡʁos\. 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: "La ruse n’est pas très subtile, il est facile de dévoiler la supercherie ou le mensonge.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la ficelle est grosse 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 ficelle est grosse, spelled L-A- -F-I-C-E-L-L-E- -E-S-T- -G-R-O-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    La ruse n’est pas très subtile, il est facile de dévoiler la supercherie ou le mensonge.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la ficelle est grosse"?
"la ficelle est grosse" is spelled L-A- -F-I-C-E-L-L-E- -E-S-T- -G-R-O-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \la fi.sɛ.l‿ɛ ɡʁos\.
What does "la ficelle est grosse" mean?
As a phrase, "la ficelle est grosse" means: La ruse n’est pas très subtile, il est facile de dévoiler la supercherie ou le mensonge.
How do you pronounce "la ficelle est grosse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "la ficelle est grosse" is \la fi.sɛ.l‿ɛ ɡʁos\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "la ficelle est grosse" 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.