rebattre les oreilles

/\ʁə.batʁ le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\/ verb

Letters

21 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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rebattre les oreilles is aFrenchverb. It means: Lasser en répétant sans cesse la même chose. Pronounced \ʁə.batʁ le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\.

Key facts for rebattre les oreilles
PropertyValue
Headwordrebattre les oreilles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.batʁ le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

rebattre les oreilles 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 rebattre les oreilles is 21 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.batʁ le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\. 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: "Lasser en répétant sans cesse la même chose.".

No misspelling variants are generated for rebattre les oreilles 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 rebattre les oreilles, spelled R-E-B-A-T-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -O-R-E-I-L-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lasser en répétant sans cesse la même chose.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rebattre les oreilles"?
"rebattre les oreilles" is spelled R-E-B-A-T-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -O-R-E-I-L-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.batʁ le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\.
What does "rebattre les oreilles" mean?
As a verb, "rebattre les oreilles" means: Lasser en répétant sans cesse la même chose.
How do you pronounce "rebattre les oreilles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rebattre les oreilles" is \ʁə.batʁ le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rebattre les oreilles" come from?
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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.