sur les chapeaux de roues

/\syʁ lɛ ʃa.po də ʁu\/ adv

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25 characters

Language

French

word origin

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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\.

Key facts for sur les chapeaux de roues
PropertyValue
Headwordsur les chapeaux de roues
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\syʁ lɛ ʃa.po də ʁu\
Letters25
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sur les chapeaux de roues 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 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

  1. 1
    Rapidement, voire trop vite, en parlant d’un véhicule qui démarre.
  2. 2
    Très rapidement.
  3. 3
    Situation qui se déroule de manière peu commune et inattendue.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sur les chapeaux de roues"?
"sur les chapeaux de roues" is spelled S-U-R- -L-E-S- -C-H-A-P-E-A-U-X- -D-E- -R-O-U-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ lɛ ʃa.po də ʁu\.
What does "sur les chapeaux de roues" mean?
As an adv, "sur les chapeaux de roues" means: Rapidement, voire trop vite, en parlant d’un véhicule qui démarre.
How do you pronounce "sur les chapeaux de roues"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sur les chapeaux de roues" is \syʁ lɛ ʃa.po də ʁu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sur les chapeaux de roues" 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.