sur les chapeaux de roues
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25 characters
Language
French
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sur les chapeaux de roues is anFrenchadv. It means: Rapidement, voire trop vite, en parlant d’un véhicule qui démarre. Pronounced \syʁ lɛ ʃa.po də ʁu\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sur les chapeaux de roues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \syʁ lɛ ʃa.po də ʁu\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for sur les chapeaux de roues is 25 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syʁ lɛ ʃa.po də ʁu\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sur les chapeaux de roues 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 les chapeaux de roues, spelled S-U-R- -L-E-S- -C-H-A-P-E-A-U-X- -D-E- -R-O-U-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rapidement, voire trop vite, en parlant d’un véhicule qui démarre.
- 2Très rapidement.
- 3Situation qui se déroule de manière peu commune et inattendue.
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