les carottes sont cuites
Letters
24 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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les carottes sont cuites is aFrenchphrase. It means: Idiotisme gastronomique signifiant que la situation est irrémédiablement compromise, sans espoir. Pronounced \lɛ ka.ʁɔt sɔ̃ kɥit\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | les carottes sont cuites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \lɛ ka.ʁɔt sɔ̃ kɥit\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for les carottes sont cuites is 24 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ ka.ʁɔt sɔ̃ kɥit\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for les carottes sont cuites 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 les carottes sont cuites, spelled L-E-S- -C-A-R-O-T-T-E-S- -S-O-N-T- -C-U-I-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Idiotisme gastronomique signifiant que la situation est irrémédiablement compromise, sans espoir.
- 2Célèbre message codé diffusé à Radio Londres, annonçant le débarquement de Normandie.
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