tailler les oreilles en pointe
The verdict
“tailler les oreilles en pointe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 30
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Réprimander sévèrement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tailler les oreilles en pointe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.je le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj ɑ̃ pwɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tailler les oreilles en pointe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tailler les oreilles en pointe is 30 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ta.je le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj ɑ̃ pwɛ̃t\. 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: "Réprimander sévèrement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tailler les oreilles en pointe 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 tailler les oreilles en pointe, spelled T-A-I-L-L-E-R- -L-E-S- -O-R-E-I-L-L-E-S- -E-N- -P-O-I-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Réprimander sévèrement.
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Using “tailler les oreilles en pointe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-A-I-L-L-E-R- -L-E-S- -O-R-E-I-L-L-E-S- -E-N- -P-O-I-N-T-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ta.je le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj ɑ̃ pwɛ̃t\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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