les jeux sont faits

/\le ʒø sɔ̃ fɛ\/ phrase

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

les jeux sont faits is aFrenchphrase. It means: Annonce qui informe les parieurs que les mises sont arrêtées. Pronounced \le ʒø sɔ̃ fɛ\.

Key facts for les jeux sont faits
PropertyValue
Headwordles jeux sont faits
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\le ʒø sɔ̃ fɛ\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

les jeux sont faits 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 jeux sont faits is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le ʒø sɔ̃ fɛ\. 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 jeux sont faits 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 jeux sont faits, spelled L-E-S- -J-E-U-X- -S-O-N-T- -F-A-I-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Annonce qui informe les parieurs que les mises sont arrêtées.
  2. 2
    Se dit pour indiquer qu’il n’y a rien plus rien à faire, qu’il est trop tard pour changer le cours du destin.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "les jeux sont faits"?
"les jeux sont faits" is spelled L-E-S- -J-E-U-X- -S-O-N-T- -F-A-I-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \le ʒø sɔ̃ fɛ\.
What does "les jeux sont faits" mean?
As a phrase, "les jeux sont faits" means: Annonce qui informe les parieurs que les mises sont arrêtées.
How do you pronounce "les jeux sont faits"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "les jeux sont faits" is \le ʒø sɔ̃ fɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "les jeux sont faits" 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.