retourner sa veste
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French
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retourner sa veste is aFrenchverb. It means: Changer de camp ou d’opinion par intérêt et non en vertu de principes moraux, afin de saisir une occasion ou d’échapper à une menace. Pronounced \ʁə.tuʁ.ne sa vɛst\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retourner sa veste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tuʁ.ne sa vɛst\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for retourner sa veste is 18 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.tuʁ.ne sa vɛst\. 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: "Changer de camp ou d’opinion par intérêt et non en vertu de principes moraux, afin de saisir une occasion ou d’échapper à une menace.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for retourner sa veste 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 retourner sa veste, spelled R-E-T-O-U-R-N-E-R- -S-A- -V-E-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Changer de camp ou d’opinion par intérêt et non en vertu de principes moraux, afin de saisir une occasion ou d’échapper à une menace.
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