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raccroc

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʁa.kʁo/
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  • IPA(key): /ʁa.kʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
  • Rhymes: -o,

Noun

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raccroc m (uncountable)

  1. (formal) chance, fluke (random occurrence, luck)
    Synonym: hasard
    • 1957, André Martinet, “Arbirtraire linguistique et double articulation”, in Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure, 15: 105-16:
      Toutes les langues connues utilisent des signes combinables et un système phonologique. Mais il y en a, comme le français, qui, pourrait-on presque dire, n’utilisent les latitudes prosodiques que par superfétation ou par raccroc.
      All known languages use combinable signs and a phonological system. But there are some, like French, that could be said to use the full prosodic scope only superfluously or by chance.

Usage notes

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  • Usually occurs in the phrase par raccroc (by chance).

Further reading

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