caresser la bouteille
\ka.ʁɛ.se la bu.tɛj\
The verdict
“caresser la bouteille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’enivrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caresser-la-bouteille · caresser la bouteille · French
caresser la bouteille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caresser la bouteille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɛ.se la bu.tɛj\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
caresser la bouteille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.ʁɛ.se la bu.tɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "S’enivrer.".
caresser la bouteille doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is caresser la bouteille, spelled C-A-R-E-S-S-E-R- -L-A- -B-O-U-T-E-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1S’enivrer.
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.