muet comme un poisson

/\mɥɛ kɔ.m‿œ̃ pwa.sɔ̃\/ adj

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21 characters

Language

French

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muet comme un poisson is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui demeure interdit et ne répond pas aux questions que l’on lui pose. Pronounced \mɥɛ kɔ.m‿œ̃ pwa.sɔ̃\.

Key facts for muet comme un poisson
PropertyValue
Headwordmuet comme un poisson
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\mɥɛ kɔ.m‿œ̃ pwa.sɔ̃\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

muet comme un poisson 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 muet comme un poisson is 21 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɥɛ kɔ.m‿œ̃ pwa.sɔ̃\. 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: "Qui demeure interdit et ne répond pas aux questions que l’on lui pose.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for muet comme un poisson 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 muet comme un poisson, spelled M-U-E-T- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -P-O-I-S-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui demeure interdit et ne répond pas aux questions que l’on lui pose.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "muet comme un poisson"?
"muet comme un poisson" is spelled M-U-E-T- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -P-O-I-S-S-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \mɥɛ kɔ.m‿œ̃ pwa.sɔ̃\.
What does "muet comme un poisson" mean?
As an adj, "muet comme un poisson" means: Qui demeure interdit et ne répond pas aux questions que l’on lui pose.
How do you pronounce "muet comme un poisson"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "muet comme un poisson" is \mɥɛ kɔ.m‿œ̃ pwa.sɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "muet comme un poisson" 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.