foutre le bordel

/\futʁ lə bɔʁ.dɛl\/ verb

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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foutre le bordel is aFrenchverb. It means: Semer le chaos, la zizanie, le désordre. Pronounced \futʁ lə bɔʁ.dɛl\.

Key facts for foutre le bordel
PropertyValue
Headwordfoutre le bordel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\futʁ lə bɔʁ.dɛl\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

foutre le bordel is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for foutre le bordel is 16 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \futʁ lə bɔʁ.dɛl\. 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: "Semer le chaos, la zizanie, le désordre.".

No misspelling variants are generated for foutre le bordel 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 foutre le bordel, spelled F-O-U-T-R-E- -L-E- -B-O-R-D-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Semer le chaos, la zizanie, le désordre.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "foutre le bordel"?
"foutre le bordel" is spelled F-O-U-T-R-E- -L-E- -B-O-R-D-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is \futʁ lə bɔʁ.dɛl\.
What does "foutre le bordel" mean?
As a verb, "foutre le bordel" means: Semer le chaos, la zizanie, le désordre.
How do you pronounce "foutre le bordel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "foutre le bordel" is \futʁ lə bɔʁ.dɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "foutre le bordel" come from?
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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.