la montagne accouche d’une souris

/\la mɔ̃.ta.ɲ‿a.kuʃ d‿yn su.ʁi\/ phrase

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Language

French

word origin

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la montagne accouche d’une souris is aFrenchphrase. It means: Pour indiquer une disproportion entre un projet annoncé comme très important et l’inconsistance ou le ridicule du résultat. Pronounced \la mɔ̃.ta.ɲ‿a.kuʃ d‿yn su.ʁi\.

Key facts for la montagne accouche d’une souris
PropertyValue
Headwordla montagne accouche d’une souris
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\la mɔ̃.ta.ɲ‿a.kuʃ d‿yn su.ʁi\
Letters33
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la montagne accouche d’une souris 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 montagne accouche d’une souris is 33 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la mɔ̃.ta.ɲ‿a.kuʃ d‿yn su.ʁi\. 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: "Pour indiquer une disproportion entre un projet annoncé comme très important et l’inconsistance ou le ridicule du résultat.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la montagne accouche d’une souris 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 montagne accouche d’une souris, spelled L-A- -M-O-N-T-A-G-N-E- -A-C-C-O-U-C-H-E- -D-’-U-N-E- -S-O-U-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Pour indiquer une disproportion entre un projet annoncé comme très important et l’inconsistance ou le ridicule du résultat.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la montagne accouche d’une souris"?
"la montagne accouche d’une souris" is spelled L-A- -M-O-N-T-A-G-N-E- -A-C-C-O-U-C-H-E- -D-’-U-N-E- -S-O-U-R-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \la mɔ̃.ta.ɲ‿a.kuʃ d‿yn su.ʁi\.
What does "la montagne accouche d’une souris" mean?
As a phrase, "la montagne accouche d’une souris" means: Pour indiquer une disproportion entre un projet annoncé comme très important et l’inconsistance ou le ridicule du résultat.
How do you pronounce "la montagne accouche d’une souris"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "la montagne accouche d’une souris" is \la mɔ̃.ta.ɲ‿a.kuʃ d‿yn su.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.