sabrer le champagne

/\sa.bʁe lə ʃɑ̃.paɲ\/ verb

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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sabrer le champagne is aFrenchverb. It means: Ouvrir une bouteille, généralement de champagne, à coup de sabre. Pronounced \sa.bʁe lə ʃɑ̃.paɲ\.

Key facts for sabrer le champagne
PropertyValue
Headwordsabrer le champagne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sa.bʁe lə ʃɑ̃.paɲ\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sabrer le champagne 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 sabrer le champagne is 19 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.bʁe lə ʃɑ̃.paɲ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for sabrer le champagne 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 sabrer le champagne, spelled S-A-B-R-E-R- -L-E- -C-H-A-M-P-A-G-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ouvrir une bouteille, généralement de champagne, à coup de sabre.
  2. 2
    Fêter quelque chose.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sabrer le champagne"?
"sabrer le champagne" is spelled S-A-B-R-E-R- -L-E- -C-H-A-M-P-A-G-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.bʁe lə ʃɑ̃.paɲ\.
What does "sabrer le champagne" mean?
As a verb, "sabrer le champagne" means: Ouvrir une bouteille, généralement de champagne, à coup de sabre.
How do you pronounce "sabrer le champagne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sabrer le champagne" is \sa.bʁe lə ʃɑ̃.paɲ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sabrer le champagne" 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.