cueillir à froid
\kœ.ji.ʁ‿a fʁwa\
The verdict
“cueillir à froid” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Surprendre quelqu’un avec une action à laquelle il ne s’attendait pas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cueillir à froid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kœ.ji.ʁ‿a fʁwa\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cueillir à froid” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cueillir à froid is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kœ.ji.ʁ‿a fʁwa\. 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: "Surprendre quelqu’un avec une action à laquelle il ne s’attendait pas.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cueillir à froid, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cueillir à froid, spelled C-U-E-I-L-L-I-R- -À- -F-R-O-I-D.
Definition
- 1Surprendre quelqu’un avec une action à laquelle il ne s’attendait pas.
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 “cueillir à froid”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-U-E-I-L-L-I-R- -À- -F-R-O-I-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kœ.ji.ʁ‿a fʁwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.