tirs au but
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11 characters
Language
French
word origin
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tirs au but is aFrenchnoun. It means: Épreuve complémentaire appliquée lors de certaines rencontres pour départager deux équipes restées à égalité à l’issue du temps de jeu imparti. Pronounced \ti.ʁ‿o.by\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tirs au but |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.ʁ‿o.by\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for tirs au but is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ti.ʁ‿o.by\. 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: "Épreuve complémentaire appliquée lors de certaines rencontres pour départager deux équipes restées à égalité à l’issue du temps de jeu imparti.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tirs au but 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 tirs au but, spelled T-I-R-S- -A-U- -B-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Épreuve complémentaire appliquée lors de certaines rencontres pour départager deux équipes restées à égalité à l’issue du temps de jeu imparti.
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