sortir de ses gonds

/\sɔʁ.tiʁ də se ɡɔ̃\/ verb

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

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sortir de ses gonds is aFrenchverb. It means: Être tellement excité par sa colère, qu’on est comme hors de soi-même. Pronounced \sɔʁ.tiʁ də se ɡɔ̃\.

Key facts for sortir de ses gonds
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Headwordsortir de ses gonds
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sɔʁ.tiʁ də se ɡɔ̃\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sortir de ses gonds 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 sortir de ses gonds is 19 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔʁ.tiʁ də se ɡɔ̃\. 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: "Être tellement excité par sa colère, qu’on est comme hors de soi-même.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sortir de ses gonds 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 sortir de ses gonds, spelled S-O-R-T-I-R- -D-E- -S-E-S- -G-O-N-D-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être tellement excité par sa colère, qu’on est comme hors de soi-même.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sortir de ses gonds"?
"sortir de ses gonds" is spelled S-O-R-T-I-R- -D-E- -S-E-S- -G-O-N-D-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔʁ.tiʁ də se ɡɔ̃\.
What does "sortir de ses gonds" mean?
As a verb, "sortir de ses gonds" means: Être tellement excité par sa colère, qu’on est comme hors de soi-même.
How do you pronounce "sortir de ses gonds"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sortir de ses gonds" is \sɔʁ.tiʁ də se ɡɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sortir de ses gonds" come from?
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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.