sur le tas

/\syʁ lə ta\/ adv

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sur le tas is anFrenchadv. It means: Directement par la pratique, sans formation préalable. Pronounced \syʁ lə ta\.

Key facts for sur le tas
PropertyValue
Headwordsur le tas
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\syʁ lə ta\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sur le tas is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sur le tas is 10 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syʁ lə ta\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for sur le tas 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 sur le tas, spelled S-U-R- -L-E- -T-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Directement par la pratique, sans formation préalable.
  2. 2
    Directement, séance tenante, sans choisir, au hasard.
  3. 3
    Sur le lieu de travail.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sur le tas"?
"sur le tas" is spelled S-U-R- -L-E- -T-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ lə ta\.
What does "sur le tas" mean?
As an adv, "sur le tas" means: Directement par la pratique, sans formation préalable.
How do you pronounce "sur le tas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sur le tas" is \syʁ lə ta\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sur le tas" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.