noyer le poisson
Letters
16 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
noyer le poisson is aFrenchverb. It means: Fatiguer un poisson pris à la ligne, avant de le tirer de l’eau. Pronounced \nwa.je lə pwa.sɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noyer le poisson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nwa.je lə pwa.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for noyer le poisson is 16 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nwa.je lə pwa.sɔ̃\. 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 noyer le 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 noyer le poisson, spelled N-O-Y-E-R- -L-E- -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
- 1Fatiguer un poisson pris à la ligne, avant de le tirer de l’eau.
- 2Ne pas aborder un thème tabou ou un sujet difficile, le dissimuler sous un monceau de détails.
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