repousser ses limites

verb

Letters

21 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

repousser ses limites is aFrenchverb. It means: Aller au delà du commun ou de l'habitude ; se dépasser.

Key facts for repousser ses limites
PropertyValue
Headwordrepousser ses limites
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

repousser ses limites 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 repousser ses limites is 21 letters long, classified as averb. 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: "Aller au delà du commun ou de l'habitude ; se dépasser.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for repousser ses limites 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 repousser ses limites, spelled R-E-P-O-U-S-S-E-R- -S-E-S- -L-I-M-I-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Aller au delà du commun ou de l'habitude ; se dépasser.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "repousser ses limites"?
"repousser ses limites" is spelled R-E-P-O-U-S-S-E-R- -S-E-S- -L-I-M-I-T-E-S.
What does "repousser ses limites" mean?
As a verb, "repousser ses limites" means: Aller au delà du commun ou de l'habitude ; se dépasser.
What language does "repousser ses limites" come from?
"repousser ses limites" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.