quand les mouettes ont pied, il est temps de virer
The verdict
“quand les mouettes ont pied, il est temps de virer” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: Se dit quand l'évidence recommande un changement de cap, au sens propre ou au sens figuré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quand les mouettes ont pied, il est temps de virer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.le.mwɛt.ɔ̃.pje.il.e.tɑ̃.də.vi.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 50 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quand les mouettes ont pied, il est temps de virer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quand les mouettes ont pied, il est temps de virer is 50 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.le.mwɛt.ɔ̃.pje.il.e.tɑ̃.də.vi.ʁe\. 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: "Se dit quand l'évidence recommande un changement de cap, au sens propre ou au sens figuré.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quand les mouettes ont pied, il est temps de virer 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 quand les mouettes ont pied, il est temps de virer, spelled Q-U-A-N-D- -L-E-S- -M-O-U-E-T-T-E-S- -O-N-T- -P-I-E-D-,- -I-L- -E-S-T- -T-E-M-P-S- -D-E- -V-I-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit quand l'évidence recommande un changement de cap, au sens propre ou au sens figuré.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-N-D- -L-E-S- -M-O-U-E-T-T-E-S- -O-N-T- -P-I-E-D-,- -I-L- -E-S-T- -T-E-M-P-S- -D-E- -V-I-R-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɑ̃.le.mwɛt.ɔ̃.pje.il.e.tɑ̃.də.vi.ʁe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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