passer au crible
Letters
16 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
passer au crible is aFrenchverb. It means: Examiner des opinions, les trier, en éliminer ce qu’elles ont de faux ou de mauvais. Pronounced \pa.se o kʁibl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passer au crible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.se o kʁibl\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for passer au crible is 16 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.se o kʁibl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for passer au crible 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 passer au crible, spelled P-A-S-S-E-R- -A-U- -C-R-I-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Examiner des opinions, les trier, en éliminer ce qu’elles ont de faux ou de mauvais.
- 2Examiner une situation dans le détail, en rechercher les origines, les causes ou encore les avantages, les inconvénients ou les problèmes qui ne sont pas immédiatement apparents.
- 3Analyser minutieusement quelque chose selon une grille de lecture précise en ne retenant que ce qui y correspond et en rejetant ce qui n’y est pas conforme.
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