miroir aux alouettes
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20 characters
Language
French
word origin
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miroir aux alouettes is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dispositif tournant, muni de petits miroirs réfléchissant les rayons du soleil, utilisé par les chasseurs pour attirer les alouettes et autres petits oiseaux (piège, leurre). Pronounced \mi.ʁwa.ʁ‿o.z‿a.lwɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | miroir aux alouettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ʁwa.ʁ‿o.z‿a.lwɛt\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for miroir aux alouettes is 20 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.ʁwa.ʁ‿o.z‿a.lwɛt\. 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 miroir aux alouettes 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 miroir aux alouettes, spelled M-I-R-O-I-R- -A-U-X- -A-L-O-U-E-T-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dispositif tournant, muni de petits miroirs réfléchissant les rayons du soleil, utilisé par les chasseurs pour attirer les alouettes et autres petits oiseaux (piège, leurre).
- 2Chose séduisante mais trompeuse.
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