donner le feu vert
The verdict
“donner le feu vert” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Donner son accord, donner son agrément, autoriser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | donner le feu vert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɔ.ne lə fø vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “donner le feu vert” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for donner le feu vert is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔ.ne lə fø vɛʁ\. 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: "Donner son accord, donner son agrément, autoriser.".
No misspelling variants are generated for donner le feu vert 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 donner le feu vert, spelled D-O-N-N-E-R- -L-E- -F-E-U- -V-E-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Donner son accord, donner son agrément, autoriser.
Antonyms
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 “donner le feu vert”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-O-N-N-E-R- -L-E- -F-E-U- -V-E-R-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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