rouge comme une tomate

/\ʁuʒ kɔ.m‿yn tɔ.mat\/ adj

Letters

22 characters

Language

French

word origin

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rouge comme une tomate is anFrenchadj. It means: Tout rouge, en parlant d’une personne sous le coup d’une émotion ou de la colère. Pronounced \ʁuʒ kɔ.m‿yn tɔ.mat\.

Key facts for rouge comme une tomate
PropertyValue
Headwordrouge comme une tomate
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ʁuʒ kɔ.m‿yn tɔ.mat\
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

rouge comme une tomate 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 rouge comme une tomate is 22 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁuʒ kɔ.m‿yn tɔ.mat\. 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: "Tout rouge, en parlant d’une personne sous le coup d’une émotion ou de la colère.".

No misspelling variants are generated for rouge comme une tomate 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 rouge comme une tomate, spelled R-O-U-G-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -T-O-M-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tout rouge, en parlant d’une personne sous le coup d’une émotion ou de la colère.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rouge comme une tomate"?
"rouge comme une tomate" is spelled R-O-U-G-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -T-O-M-A-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁuʒ kɔ.m‿yn tɔ.mat\.
What does "rouge comme une tomate" mean?
As an adj, "rouge comme une tomate" means: Tout rouge, en parlant d’une personne sous le coup d’une émotion ou de la colère.
How do you pronounce "rouge comme une tomate"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rouge comme une tomate" is \ʁuʒ kɔ.m‿yn tɔ.mat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rouge comme une tomate" 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.