engueuler comme du poisson pourri
\ɑ̃.ɡœ.le kɔm dy pwa.sɔ̃ pu.ʁi\
The verdict
“engueuler comme du poisson pourri” 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
- 33
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tancer, réprimander très vivement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engueuler comme du poisson pourri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡœ.le kɔm dy pwa.sɔ̃ pu.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 33 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “engueuler comme du poisson pourri” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for engueuler comme du poisson pourri is 33 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ɡœ.le kɔm dy pwa.sɔ̃ pu.ʁi\. 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: "Tancer, réprimander très vivement.".
engueuler comme du poisson pourri doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is engueuler comme du poisson pourri, spelled E-N-G-U-E-U-L-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-U- -P-O-I-S-S-O-N- -P-O-U-R-R-I.
Definition
- 1Tancer, réprimander très vivement.
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 “engueuler comme du poisson pourri”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-N-G-U-E-U-L-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-U- -P-O-I-S-S-O-N- -P-O-U-R-R-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.ɡœ.le kɔm dy pwa.sɔ̃ pu.ʁi\ (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.