par terre
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9 characters
Language
French
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par terre is anFrenchadv. It means: Sur le sol, en parlant des choses qui tombent ou qu’on jette. Pronounced \paʁ tɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | par terre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \paʁ tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for par terre is 9 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ tɛʁ\. 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 par terre 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 par terre, spelled P-A-R- -T-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sur le sol, en parlant des choses qui tombent ou qu’on jette.
- 2Au niveau du sol.
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