pleurer comme un veau

/\plœ.ʁe kɔ.m‿œ̃ vo\/ verb

Letters

21 characters

Language

French

word origin

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pleurer comme un veau is aFrenchverb. It means: Pleurer abondamment et bruyamment. Pronounced \plœ.ʁe kɔ.m‿œ̃ vo\.

Key facts for pleurer comme un veau
PropertyValue
Headwordpleurer comme un veau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\plœ.ʁe kɔ.m‿œ̃ vo\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pleurer comme un veau 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 pleurer comme un veau is 21 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plœ.ʁe kɔ.m‿œ̃ vo\. 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: "Pleurer abondamment et bruyamment.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Pleurer abondamment et bruyamment.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pleurer comme un veau"?
"pleurer comme un veau" is spelled P-L-E-U-R-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -V-E-A-U. The IPA pronunciation is \plœ.ʁe kɔ.m‿œ̃ vo\.
What does "pleurer comme un veau" mean?
As a verb, "pleurer comme un veau" means: Pleurer abondamment et bruyamment.
How do you pronounce "pleurer comme un veau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pleurer comme un veau" is \plœ.ʁe kɔ.m‿œ̃ vo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pleurer comme un veau" 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.