parler de tout et de rien

/\paʁ.le də tu e də ʁjɛ̃\/ verb

Letters

25 characters

Language

French

word origin

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parler de tout et de rien is aFrenchverb. It means: Parler de n’importe quoi et notamment de sujets futiles, sans importance. Pronounced \paʁ.le də tu e də ʁjɛ̃\.

Key facts for parler de tout et de rien
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Headwordparler de tout et de rien
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\paʁ.le də tu e də ʁjɛ̃\
Letters25
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

parler de tout et de rien 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 parler de tout et de rien is 25 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.le də tu e də ʁjɛ̃\. 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 parler de tout et de rien 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 parler de tout et de rien, spelled P-A-R-L-E-R- -D-E- -T-O-U-T- -E-T- -D-E- -R-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Parler de n’importe quoi et notamment de sujets futiles, sans importance.
  2. 2
    Tenir des propos sans importance.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parler de tout et de rien"?
"parler de tout et de rien" is spelled P-A-R-L-E-R- -D-E- -T-O-U-T- -E-T- -D-E- -R-I-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \paʁ.le də tu e də ʁjɛ̃\.
What does "parler de tout et de rien" mean?
As a verb, "parler de tout et de rien" means: Parler de n’importe quoi et notamment de sujets futiles, sans importance.
How do you pronounce "parler de tout et de rien"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parler de tout et de rien" is \paʁ.le də tu e də ʁjɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.