travail de fourmi

/\tʁɑ.vaj də fuʁ.mi\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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similar word pairs

travail de fourmi is aFrenchnoun. It means: Travail qui demande beaucoup de patience, dans lequel on avance très lentement, mais en avançant tout de même vers l’objectif. Pronounced \tʁɑ.vaj də fuʁ.mi\.

Key facts for travail de fourmi
PropertyValue
Headwordtravail de fourmi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁɑ.vaj də fuʁ.mi\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

travail de fourmi 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 travail de fourmi is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ.vaj də fuʁ.mi\. 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: "Travail qui demande beaucoup de patience, dans lequel on avance très lentement, mais en avançant tout de même vers l’objectif.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for travail de fourmi 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 travail de fourmi, spelled T-R-A-V-A-I-L- -D-E- -F-O-U-R-M-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Travail qui demande beaucoup de patience, dans lequel on avance très lentement, mais en avançant tout de même vers l’objectif.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "travail de fourmi"?
"travail de fourmi" is spelled T-R-A-V-A-I-L- -D-E- -F-O-U-R-M-I. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁɑ.vaj də fuʁ.mi\.
What does "travail de fourmi" mean?
As a noun, "travail de fourmi" means: Travail qui demande beaucoup de patience, dans lequel on avance très lentement, mais en avançant tout de même vers l’objectif.
How do you pronounce "travail de fourmi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "travail de fourmi" is \tʁɑ.vaj də fuʁ.mi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "travail de fourmi" 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.