manger comme un moineau

/\mɑ̃.ʒe kɔ.mɛ̃ mwa.no\/ verb

Letters

23 characters

Language

French

word origin

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manger comme un moineau is aFrenchverb. It means: Manger très peu. Pronounced \mɑ̃.ʒe kɔ.mɛ̃ mwa.no\.

Key facts for manger comme un moineau
PropertyValue
Headwordmanger comme un moineau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɑ̃.ʒe kɔ.mɛ̃ mwa.no\
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

manger comme un moineau 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 manger comme un moineau is 23 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃.ʒe kɔ.mɛ̃ mwa.no\. 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: "Manger très peu.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for manger comme un moineau 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 manger comme un moineau, spelled M-A-N-G-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -M-O-I-N-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manger très peu.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "manger comme un moineau"?
"manger comme un moineau" is spelled M-A-N-G-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -M-O-I-N-E-A-U. The IPA pronunciation is \mɑ̃.ʒe kɔ.mɛ̃ mwa.no\.
What does "manger comme un moineau" mean?
As a verb, "manger comme un moineau" means: Manger très peu.
How do you pronounce "manger comme un moineau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "manger comme un moineau" is \mɑ̃.ʒe kɔ.mɛ̃ mwa.no\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "manger comme un moineau" 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.