cracher dans la soupe

\kʁa.ʃe dɑ̃ la sup\

/\kʁa.ʃe dɑ̃ la sup\/ verb

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.

Key facts for cracher dans la soupe
PropertyValue
Headwordcracher dans la soupe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kʁa.ʃe dɑ̃ la sup\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cracher dans la soupe” sits in French frequency

cracher dans la soupe falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Mépriser, critiquer ce dont on profite, ce qui permet d’exister.

Synonyms

mordre la main nourricièremordre la main qui vous nourritmordre la main qui vous tend à manger

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cracher dans la soupe"?
"cracher dans la soupe" is spelled C-R-A-C-H-E-R- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -S-O-U-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁa.ʃe dɑ̃ la sup\.
What does "cracher dans la soupe" mean?
As a verb, "cracher dans la soupe" means: Mépriser, critiquer ce dont on profite, ce qui permet d’exister.
How do you pronounce "cracher dans la soupe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cracher dans la soupe" is \kʁa.ʃe dɑ̃ la sup\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “cracher dans la soupe”

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.
  • Say it as \kʁa.ʃe dɑ̃ la sup\ (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.

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