muet comme une carpe

/\mɥɛ kɔ.m‿yn kaʁp\/ adj

Letters

20 characters

Language

French

word origin

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0

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muet comme une carpe is anFrenchadj. It means: Sans parole, sans voix, silencieux. Pronounced \mɥɛ kɔ.m‿yn kaʁp\.

Key facts for muet comme une carpe
PropertyValue
Headwordmuet comme une carpe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\mɥɛ kɔ.m‿yn kaʁp\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

muet comme une carpe 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 une carpe is 20 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɥɛ kɔ.m‿yn kaʁp\. 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: "Sans parole, sans voix, silencieux.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Sans parole, sans voix, silencieux.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "muet comme une carpe"?
"muet comme une carpe" is spelled M-U-E-T- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -C-A-R-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mɥɛ kɔ.m‿yn kaʁp\.
What does "muet comme une carpe" mean?
As an adj, "muet comme une carpe" means: Sans parole, sans voix, silencieux.
How do you pronounce "muet comme une carpe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "muet comme une carpe" is \mɥɛ kɔ.m‿yn kaʁp\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "muet comme une carpe" 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.