prendre pour acquis
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19 characters
Language
French
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prendre pour acquis is aFrenchverb. It means: Considérer (quelque chose) comme certain ; ne pas remettre en question ; supposer quelque chose vrai sans vérification. Pronounced \\pʁɑ̃.dʁə pu.ʁ‿a.ki\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre pour acquis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \\pʁɑ̃.dʁə pu.ʁ‿a.ki\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for prendre pour acquis is 19 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \\pʁɑ̃.dʁə pu.ʁ‿a.ki\. 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: "Considérer (quelque chose) comme certain ; ne pas remettre en question ; supposer quelque chose vrai sans vérification.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for prendre pour acquis 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 prendre pour acquis, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -P-O-U-R- -A-C-Q-U-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Considérer (quelque chose) comme certain ; ne pas remettre en question ; supposer quelque chose vrai sans vérification.
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