prendre pour une bille

/\pʁɑ̃dʁ pu.ʁ‿yn bij\/ verb

Letters

22 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

prendre pour une bille is aFrenchverb. It means: Prendre pour un idiot ; faire passer quelqu’un pour ridicule, le moquer. Pronounced \pʁɑ̃dʁ pu.ʁ‿yn bij\.

Key facts for prendre pour une bille
PropertyValue
Headwordprendre pour une bille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɑ̃dʁ pu.ʁ‿yn bij\
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prendre pour une bille 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 prendre pour une bille is 22 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃dʁ pu.ʁ‿yn bij\. 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 pour un idiot ; faire passer quelqu’un pour ridicule, le moquer.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for prendre pour une bille 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 une bille, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -P-O-U-R- -U-N-E- -B-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prendre pour un idiot ; faire passer quelqu’un pour ridicule, le moquer.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prendre pour une bille"?
"prendre pour une bille" is spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -P-O-U-R- -U-N-E- -B-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɑ̃dʁ pu.ʁ‿yn bij\.
What does "prendre pour une bille" mean?
As a verb, "prendre pour une bille" means: Prendre pour un idiot ; faire passer quelqu’un pour ridicule, le moquer.
How do you pronounce "prendre pour une bille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prendre pour une bille" is \pʁɑ̃dʁ pu.ʁ‿yn bij\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prendre pour une bille" 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.