mise au pilori
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14 characters
Language
French
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mise au pilori is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de vouer (une personne, une idée, un produit) au mépris public. Pronounced \mi.z‿o.pi.lɔ.ʁi\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mise au pilori |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.z‿o.pi.lɔ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for mise au pilori is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.z‿o.pi.lɔ.ʁi\. 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 mise au pilori 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 mise au pilori, spelled M-I-S-E- -A-U- -P-I-L-O-R-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de vouer (une personne, une idée, un produit) au mépris public.
- 2Pratique consistant à publier le nom de personnes physiques ou morales impliquées dans des activités tenues pour répréhensibles.
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