se prendre une veste
Letters
20 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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se prendre une veste is aFrenchverb. It means: Échouer dans une affaire ou en séduction, faire face à une défaite. Pronounced \sə pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿yn vɛst\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se prendre une veste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿yn vɛst\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for se prendre une veste is 20 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿yn vɛst\. 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: "Échouer dans une affaire ou en séduction, faire face à une défaite.".
No misspelling variants are generated for se prendre une veste 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 se prendre une veste, spelled S-E- -P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -U-N-E- -V-E-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Échouer dans une affaire ou en séduction, faire face à une défaite.
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