faire bouillir la marmite
The verdict
“faire bouillir la marmite” 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
- 25
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Apporter l’argent nécessaire pour faire vivre la famille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire bouillir la marmite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ bu.jiʁ la maʁ.mit\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire bouillir la marmite” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire bouillir la marmite is 25 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ bu.jiʁ la maʁ.mit\. 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: "Apporter l’argent nécessaire pour faire vivre la famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for faire bouillir la marmite 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 faire bouillir la marmite, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -B-O-U-I-L-L-I-R- -L-A- -M-A-R-M-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Apporter l’argent nécessaire pour faire vivre la famille.
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Using “faire bouillir la marmite”
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- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -B-O-U-I-L-L-I-R- -L-A- -M-A-R-M-I-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ bu.jiʁ la maʁ.mit\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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