prendre des gants

/\pʁɑ̃.dʁə dɛ ɡɑ̃\/ verb

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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prendre des gants is aFrenchverb. It means: Prendre beaucoup de précautions pour faire ou dire une chose sans blesser celui à qui on a affaire. Pronounced \pʁɑ̃.dʁə dɛ ɡɑ̃\.

Key facts for prendre des gants
PropertyValue
Headwordprendre des gants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɑ̃.dʁə dɛ ɡɑ̃\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prendre des gants 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 prendre des gants is 17 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə dɛ ɡɑ̃\. 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: "Prendre beaucoup de précautions pour faire ou dire une chose sans blesser celui à qui on a affaire.".

No misspelling variants are generated for prendre des gants 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 prendre des gants, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -D-E-S- -G-A-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prendre beaucoup de précautions pour faire ou dire une chose sans blesser celui à qui on a affaire.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prendre des gants"?
"prendre des gants" is spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -D-E-S- -G-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɑ̃.dʁə dɛ ɡɑ̃\.
What does "prendre des gants" mean?
As a verb, "prendre des gants" means: Prendre beaucoup de précautions pour faire ou dire une chose sans blesser celui à qui on a affaire.
How do you pronounce "prendre des gants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prendre des gants" is \pʁɑ̃.dʁə dɛ ɡɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.