beurré comme un Petit Lu
\bø.ʁe kɔ.m‿œ̃ pə.ti ly\
The verdict
“beurré comme un Petit Lu” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être complètement saoul.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beurré comme un Petit Lu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bø.ʁe kɔ.m‿œ̃ pə.ti ly\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “beurré comme un Petit Lu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for beurré comme un Petit Lu is 24 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bø.ʁe kɔ.m‿œ̃ pə.ti ly\. 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: "Être complètement saoul.".
No misspelling variants are generated for beurré comme un Petit Lu in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is beurré comme un Petit Lu, spelled B-E-U-R-R-É- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -P-E-T-I-T- -L-U.
Definition
- 1Être complètement saoul.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “beurré comme un Petit Lu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-E-U-R-R-É- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -P-E-T-I-T- -L-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bø.ʁe kɔ.m‿œ̃ pə.ti ly\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.