les dés sont jetés

/\le de sɔ̃ ʒə.te\/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

les dés sont jetés is aFrenchphrase. It means: Ce qui va se passer ne peut plus être changé. Pronounced \le de sɔ̃ ʒə.te\.

Key facts for les dés sont jetés
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Headwordles dés sont jetés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\le de sɔ̃ ʒə.te\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

les dés sont jetés 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 dés sont jetés is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le de sɔ̃ ʒə.te\. 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: "Ce qui va se passer ne peut plus être changé.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for les dés sont jetés 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 dés sont jetés, spelled L-E-S- -D-É-S- -S-O-N-T- -J-E-T-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui va se passer ne peut plus être changé.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "les dés sont jetés"?
"les dés sont jetés" is spelled L-E-S- -D-É-S- -S-O-N-T- -J-E-T-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \le de sɔ̃ ʒə.te\.
What does "les dés sont jetés" mean?
As a phrase, "les dés sont jetés" means: Ce qui va se passer ne peut plus être changé.
How do you pronounce "les dés sont jetés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "les dés sont jetés" is \le de sɔ̃ ʒə.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "les dés sont jetés" 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.