retrousser ses manches
Letters
22 characters
Language
French
word origin
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retrousser ses manches is aFrenchverb. It means: Se mettre au travail. Pronounced \ʁə.tʁu.se se mɑ̃ʃ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retrousser ses manches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tʁu.se se mɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for retrousser ses manches is 22 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.tʁu.se se mɑ̃ʃ\. 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: "Se mettre au travail.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for retrousser ses manches 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 retrousser ses manches, spelled R-E-T-R-O-U-S-S-E-R- -S-E-S- -M-A-N-C-H-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se mettre au travail.
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