pour des queues de cerises

/\puʁ de kø də sə.ʁiz\/ adv

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26 characters

Language

French

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pour des queues de cerises is anFrenchadv. It means: Pour presque rien (qualifie généralement un travail, une tâche). Pronounced \puʁ de kø də sə.ʁiz\.

Key facts for pour des queues de cerises
PropertyValue
Headwordpour des queues de cerises
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\puʁ de kø də sə.ʁiz\
Letters26
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pour des queues de cerises is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pour des queues de cerises is 26 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \puʁ de kø də sə.ʁiz\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for pour des queues de cerises in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 pour des queues de cerises, spelled P-O-U-R- -D-E-S- -Q-U-E-U-E-S- -D-E- -C-E-R-I-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pour presque rien (qualifie généralement un travail, une tâche).
  2. 2
    Pour des raisons futiles, des broutilles (qualifie un conflit : « se battre pour des queues de cerises »).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pour des queues de cerises"?
"pour des queues de cerises" is spelled P-O-U-R- -D-E-S- -Q-U-E-U-E-S- -D-E- -C-E-R-I-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \puʁ de kø də sə.ʁiz\.
What does "pour des queues de cerises" mean?
As an adv, "pour des queues de cerises" means: Pour presque rien (qualifie généralement un travail, une tâche).
How do you pronounce "pour des queues de cerises"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pour des queues de cerises" is \puʁ de kø də sə.ʁiz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pour des queues de cerises" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.