ouvrir sa grande gueule
The verdict
“ouvrir sa grande gueule” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Parler de manière impertinente, grossière.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouvrir sa grande gueule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \u.vʁiʁ sa ɡʁɑ̃d ɡœl\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ouvrir sa grande gueule” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ouvrir sa grande gueule is 23 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \u.vʁiʁ sa ɡʁɑ̃d ɡœl\. 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: "Parler de manière impertinente, grossière.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ouvrir sa grande gueule in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 ouvrir sa grande gueule, spelled O-U-V-R-I-R- -S-A- -G-R-A-N-D-E- -G-U-E-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parler de manière impertinente, grossière.
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- The one correct French spelling is O-U-V-R-I-R- -S-A- -G-R-A-N-D-E- -G-U-E-U-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \u.vʁiʁ sa ɡʁɑ̃d ɡœl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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