sabrer le champagne
Letters
19 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
sabrer le champagne is aFrenchverb. It means: Ouvrir une bouteille, généralement de champagne, à coup de sabre. Pronounced \sa.bʁe lə ʃɑ̃.paɲ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sabrer le champagne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sa.bʁe lə ʃɑ̃.paɲ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Ouvrir une bouteille, généralement de champagne, à coup de sabre.
- 2Fêter quelque chose.
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