passer au crible

/\pa.se o kʁibl\/ verb

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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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\.

Key facts for passer au crible
PropertyValue
Headwordpasser au crible
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pa.se o kʁibl\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

passer au crible 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 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

  1. 1
    Examiner des opinions, les trier, en éliminer ce qu’elles ont de faux ou de mauvais.
  2. 2
    Examiner 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.
  3. 3
    Analyser 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "passer au crible"?
"passer au crible" is spelled P-A-S-S-E-R- -A-U- -C-R-I-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.se o kʁibl\.
What does "passer au crible" mean?
As a verb, "passer au crible" means: Examiner des opinions, les trier, en éliminer ce qu’elles ont de faux ou de mauvais.
How do you pronounce "passer au crible"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "passer au crible" is \pa.se o kʁibl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "passer au crible" come from?
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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.