cracher dans la soupe
\kʁa.ʃe dɑ̃ la sup\
The verdict
“cracher dans la soupe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mépriser, critiquer ce dont on profite, ce qui permet d’exister.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cracher dans la soupe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁa.ʃe dɑ̃ la sup\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cracher dans la soupe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cracher dans la soupe is 21 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁa.ʃe dɑ̃ la sup\. 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: "Mépriser, critiquer ce dont on profite, ce qui permet d’exister.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cracher dans la soupe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 cracher dans la soupe, spelled C-R-A-C-H-E-R- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -S-O-U-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mépriser, critiquer ce dont on profite, ce qui permet d’exister.
Synonyms
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-A-C-H-E-R- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -S-O-U-P-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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