raide comme un passe-lacet

/\ʁɛd kɔ.m‿œ̃ pa.sla.sɛ\/ adj

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Language

French

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raide comme un passe-lacet is anFrenchadj. It means: Très raide. Pronounced \ʁɛd kɔ.m‿œ̃ pa.sla.sɛ\.

Key facts for raide comme un passe-lacet
PropertyValue
Headwordraide comme un passe-lacet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ʁɛd kɔ.m‿œ̃ pa.sla.sɛ\
Letters26
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

raide comme un passe-lacet 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 raide comme un passe-lacet is 26 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛd kɔ.m‿œ̃ pa.sla.sɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for raide comme un passe-lacet 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 raide comme un passe-lacet, spelled R-A-I-D-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -P-A-S-S-E---L-A-C-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Très raide.
  2. 2
    Désargenté, ruiné.
  3. 3
    Ivre mort.
  4. 4
    Raide mort.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "raide comme un passe-lacet"?
"raide comme un passe-lacet" is spelled R-A-I-D-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -P-A-S-S-E---L-A-C-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛd kɔ.m‿œ̃ pa.sla.sɛ\.
What does "raide comme un passe-lacet" mean?
As an adj, "raide comme un passe-lacet" means: Très raide.
How do you pronounce "raide comme un passe-lacet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "raide comme un passe-lacet" is \ʁɛd kɔ.m‿œ̃ pa.sla.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "raide comme un passe-lacet" 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.