la part du feu

/\la paʁ dy fø\/ verb

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

la part du feu is aFrenchverb. It means: La partie de ce qui est menacé par un incendie et qu’on sacrifie pour sauver le reste. Pronounced \la paʁ dy fø\.

Key facts for la part du feu
PropertyValue
Headwordla part du feu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\la paʁ dy fø\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la part du feu 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 part du feu is 14 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la paʁ dy fø\. 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 partie de ce qui est menacé par un incendie et qu’on sacrifie pour sauver le reste.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la part du feu 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 part du feu, spelled L-A- -P-A-R-T- -D-U- -F-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    La partie de ce qui est menacé par un incendie et qu’on sacrifie pour sauver le reste.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la part du feu"?
"la part du feu" is spelled L-A- -P-A-R-T- -D-U- -F-E-U. The IPA pronunciation is \la paʁ dy fø\.
What does "la part du feu" mean?
As a verb, "la part du feu" means: La partie de ce qui est menacé par un incendie et qu’on sacrifie pour sauver le reste.
How do you pronounce "la part du feu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "la part du feu" is \la paʁ dy fø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "la part du feu" 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.