parler comme un livre

/\paʁ.le kɔ.m‿œ̃ livʁ\/ verb

Letters

21 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

parler comme un livre is aFrenchverb. It means: Parler avec facilité, mais en termes trop recherchés et trop arrangés pour la conversation. Pronounced \paʁ.le kɔ.m‿œ̃ livʁ\.

Key facts for parler comme un livre
PropertyValue
Headwordparler comme un livre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\paʁ.le kɔ.m‿œ̃ livʁ\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

parler comme un livre is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for parler comme un livre is 21 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.le kɔ.m‿œ̃ livʁ\. 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 avec facilité, mais en termes trop recherchés et trop arrangés pour la conversation.".

No misspelling variants are generated for parler comme un livre 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 parler comme un livre, spelled P-A-R-L-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -L-I-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Parler avec facilité, mais en termes trop recherchés et trop arrangés pour la conversation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parler comme un livre"?
"parler comme un livre" is spelled P-A-R-L-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -L-I-V-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \paʁ.le kɔ.m‿œ̃ livʁ\.
What does "parler comme un livre" mean?
As a verb, "parler comme un livre" means: Parler avec facilité, mais en termes trop recherchés et trop arrangés pour la conversation.
How do you pronounce "parler comme un livre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parler comme un livre" is \paʁ.le kɔ.m‿œ̃ livʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "parler comme un livre" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.