sur des charbons

/\syʁ de ʃaʁ.bɔ̃\/ adv

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

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sur des charbons is anFrenchadv. It means: Se trouver dans un état d’inquiétude et d’impatience. Pronounced \syʁ de ʃaʁ.bɔ̃\.

Key facts for sur des charbons
PropertyValue
Headwordsur des charbons
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\syʁ de ʃaʁ.bɔ̃\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sur des charbons 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 sur des charbons is 16 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syʁ de ʃaʁ.bɔ̃\. 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: "Se trouver dans un état d’inquiétude et d’impatience.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sur des charbons 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 sur des charbons, spelled S-U-R- -D-E-S- -C-H-A-R-B-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se trouver dans un état d’inquiétude et d’impatience.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sur des charbons"?
"sur des charbons" is spelled S-U-R- -D-E-S- -C-H-A-R-B-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ de ʃaʁ.bɔ̃\.
What does "sur des charbons" mean?
As an adv, "sur des charbons" means: Se trouver dans un état d’inquiétude et d’impatience.
How do you pronounce "sur des charbons"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sur des charbons" is \syʁ de ʃaʁ.bɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sur des charbons" 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.