y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix

/\i ja.le kɔ.m‿yn kɔʁ.nɛj ki a.ba de nwa\/ verb

Letters

45 characters

Language

French

word origin

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y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix is aFrenchverb. It means: S’employer à une affaire avec un zèle maladroit. Pronounced \i ja.le kɔ.m‿yn kɔʁ.nɛj ki a.ba de nwa\.

Key facts for y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix
PropertyValue
Headwordy aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\i ja.le kɔ.m‿yn kɔʁ.nɛj ki a.ba de nwa\
Letters45
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix 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 y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix is 45 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i ja.le kɔ.m‿yn kɔʁ.nɛj ki a.ba de nwa\. 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: "S’employer à une affaire avec un zèle maladroit.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix 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 y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix, spelled Y- -A-L-L-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -C-O-R-N-E-I-L-L-E- -Q-U-I- -A-B-A-T- -D-E-S- -N-O-I-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    S’employer à une affaire avec un zèle maladroit.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix"?
"y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix" is spelled Y- -A-L-L-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -C-O-R-N-E-I-L-L-E- -Q-U-I- -A-B-A-T- -D-E-S- -N-O-I-X. The IPA pronunciation is \i ja.le kɔ.m‿yn kɔʁ.nɛj ki a.ba de nwa\.
What does "y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix" mean?
As a verb, "y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix" means: S’employer à une affaire avec un zèle maladroit.
How do you pronounce "y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "y aller comme une corneille qui abat des noix" is \i ja.le kɔ.m‿yn kɔʁ.nɛj ki a.ba de nwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.