les carottes sont cuites

/\lɛ ka.ʁɔt sɔ̃ kɥit\/ phrase

Letters

24 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

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\.

Key facts for les carottes sont cuites
PropertyValue
Headwordles carottes sont cuites
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\lɛ ka.ʁɔt sɔ̃ kɥit\
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

les carottes sont cuites 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 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

  1. 1
    Idiotisme gastronomique signifiant que la situation est irrémédiablement compromise, sans espoir.
  2. 2
    Célèbre message codé diffusé à Radio Londres, annonçant le débarquement de Normandie.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "les carottes sont cuites"?
"les carottes sont cuites" is spelled L-E-S- -C-A-R-O-T-T-E-S- -S-O-N-T- -C-U-I-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \lɛ ka.ʁɔt sɔ̃ kɥit\.
What does "les carottes sont cuites" mean?
As a phrase, "les carottes sont cuites" means: Idiotisme gastronomique signifiant que la situation est irrémédiablement compromise, sans espoir.
How do you pronounce "les carottes sont cuites"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "les carottes sont cuites" is \lɛ ka.ʁɔt sɔ̃ kɥit\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "les carottes sont cuites" 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.