qui trop embrasse mal étreint

/\ki tʁo.p‿ɑ̃.bʁas ma.l‿e.tʁɛ̃\/ phrase

Letters

29 characters

Language

French

word origin

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similar word pairs

qui trop embrasse mal étreint is aFrenchphrase. It means: Qui entreprend trop de choses à la fois ne réussit à rien. Pronounced \ki tʁo.p‿ɑ̃.bʁas ma.l‿e.tʁɛ̃\.

Key facts for qui trop embrasse mal étreint
PropertyValue
Headwordqui trop embrasse mal étreint
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\ki tʁo.p‿ɑ̃.bʁas ma.l‿e.tʁɛ̃\
Letters29
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

qui trop embrasse mal étreint 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 qui trop embrasse mal étreint is 29 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki tʁo.p‿ɑ̃.bʁas ma.l‿e.tʁɛ̃\. 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: "Qui entreprend trop de choses à la fois ne réussit à rien.".

No misspelling variants are generated for qui trop embrasse mal étreint 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 qui trop embrasse mal étreint, spelled Q-U-I- -T-R-O-P- -E-M-B-R-A-S-S-E- -M-A-L- -É-T-R-E-I-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui entreprend trop de choses à la fois ne réussit à rien.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "qui trop embrasse mal étreint"?
"qui trop embrasse mal étreint" is spelled Q-U-I- -T-R-O-P- -E-M-B-R-A-S-S-E- -M-A-L- -É-T-R-E-I-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ki tʁo.p‿ɑ̃.bʁas ma.l‿e.tʁɛ̃\.
What does "qui trop embrasse mal étreint" mean?
As a phrase, "qui trop embrasse mal étreint" means: Qui entreprend trop de choses à la fois ne réussit à rien.
How do you pronounce "qui trop embrasse mal étreint"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "qui trop embrasse mal étreint" is \ki tʁo.p‿ɑ̃.bʁas ma.l‿e.tʁɛ̃\. 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.