tomber sous le charme

/\tɔ̃.be su lə ʃaʁm\/ verb

Letters

21 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

tomber sous le charme is aFrenchverb. It means: Avoir le coup de foudre ; aimer soudainement quelqu’un ; être séduit. Pronounced \tɔ̃.be su lə ʃaʁm\.

Key facts for tomber sous le charme
PropertyValue
Headwordtomber sous le charme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tɔ̃.be su lə ʃaʁm\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tomber sous le charme 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 tomber sous le charme is 21 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ̃.be su lə ʃaʁm\. 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: "Avoir le coup de foudre ; aimer soudainement quelqu’un ; être séduit.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tomber sous le charme 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 tomber sous le charme, spelled T-O-M-B-E-R- -S-O-U-S- -L-E- -C-H-A-R-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Avoir le coup de foudre ; aimer soudainement quelqu’un ; être séduit.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tomber sous le charme"?
"tomber sous le charme" is spelled T-O-M-B-E-R- -S-O-U-S- -L-E- -C-H-A-R-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɔ̃.be su lə ʃaʁm\.
What does "tomber sous le charme" mean?
As a verb, "tomber sous le charme" means: Avoir le coup de foudre ; aimer soudainement quelqu’un ; être séduit.
How do you pronounce "tomber sous le charme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tomber sous le charme" is \tɔ̃.be su lə ʃaʁm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tomber sous le charme" 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.