mise au pilori

/\mi.z‿o.pi.lɔ.ʁi\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

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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\.

Key facts for mise au pilori
PropertyValue
Headwordmise au pilori
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.z‿o.pi.lɔ.ʁi\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mise au pilori 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 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

  1. 1
    Action de vouer (une personne, une idée, un produit) au mépris public.
  2. 2
    Pratique consistant à publier le nom de personnes physiques ou morales impliquées dans des activités tenues pour répréhensibles.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mise au pilori"?
"mise au pilori" is spelled M-I-S-E- -A-U- -P-I-L-O-R-I. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.z‿o.pi.lɔ.ʁi\.
What does "mise au pilori" mean?
As a noun, "mise au pilori" means: Action de vouer (une personne, une idée, un produit) au mépris public.
How do you pronounce "mise au pilori"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mise au pilori" is \mi.z‿o.pi.lɔ.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mise au pilori" 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.