se faire tirer les oreilles

/\sə fɛ.ʁə ti.ʁe lɛ.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\/ verb

Letters

27 characters

Language

French

word origin

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similar word pairs

se faire tirer les oreilles is aFrenchverb. It means: Subir une vive remontrance. Pronounced \sə fɛ.ʁə ti.ʁe lɛ.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\.

Key facts for se faire tirer les oreilles
PropertyValue
Headwordse faire tirer les oreilles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sə fɛ.ʁə ti.ʁe lɛ.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\
Letters27
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

se faire tirer les oreilles is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for se faire tirer les oreilles is 27 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə fɛ.ʁə ti.ʁe lɛ.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\. 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: "Subir une vive remontrance.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for se faire tirer les oreilles 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 se faire tirer les oreilles, spelled S-E- -F-A-I-R-E- -T-I-R-E-R- -L-E-S- -O-R-E-I-L-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Subir une vive remontrance.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "se faire tirer les oreilles"?
"se faire tirer les oreilles" is spelled S-E- -F-A-I-R-E- -T-I-R-E-R- -L-E-S- -O-R-E-I-L-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sə fɛ.ʁə ti.ʁe lɛ.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\.
What does "se faire tirer les oreilles" mean?
As a verb, "se faire tirer les oreilles" means: Subir une vive remontrance.
How do you pronounce "se faire tirer les oreilles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "se faire tirer les oreilles" is \sə fɛ.ʁə ti.ʁe lɛ.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.