plus grand que nature

/\ply ɡʁɑ̃ kə na.tyʁ\/ adj

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Language

French

word origin

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plus grand que nature is anFrenchadj. It means: Se dit d’une statue, d’un tableau où les proportions naturelles sont exagérées, où la taille ordinaire est dépassée. Pronounced \ply ɡʁɑ̃ kə na.tyʁ\.

Key facts for plus grand que nature
PropertyValue
Headwordplus grand que nature
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ply ɡʁɑ̃ kə na.tyʁ\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

plus grand que nature 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 plus grand que nature is 21 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ply ɡʁɑ̃ kə na.tyʁ\. 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 plus grand que nature 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 plus grand que nature, spelled P-L-U-S- -G-R-A-N-D- -Q-U-E- -N-A-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se dit d’une statue, d’un tableau où les proportions naturelles sont exagérées, où la taille ordinaire est dépassée.
  2. 2
    Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plus grand que nature"?
"plus grand que nature" is spelled P-L-U-S- -G-R-A-N-D- -Q-U-E- -N-A-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ply ɡʁɑ̃ kə na.tyʁ\.
What does "plus grand que nature" mean?
As an adj, "plus grand que nature" means: Se dit d’une statue, d’un tableau où les proportions naturelles sont exagérées, où la taille ordinaire est dépassée.
How do you pronounce "plus grand que nature"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plus grand que nature" is \ply ɡʁɑ̃ kə na.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plus grand que nature" 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.