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bêtise

/beɪˈtiːz/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
be-tise
IPA
/beɪˈtiːz/
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

silliness, folly, stupidity

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French bêtise.

Usage

Inflected Forms

bêtises (plural)

Rhymes With

he's summit disease a little bit of bread and no cheese simplified chinese miner's disease treetop disease tobago cays éminence grise reunionese voynichese timese parmese

Questions

How do you pronounce bêtise?
The recorded pronunciation is /beɪˈtiːz/.
What does bêtise mean?
silliness, folly, stupidity
Where does bêtise come from?
Unadapted borrowing from French bêtise.

How to pronounce bêtise

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