green with envy
\ɡɹiːn wɪð ˈɛn.vi\
The verdict
“green with envy” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Vert de jalousie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | green with envy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡɹiːn wɪð ˈɛn.vi\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “green with envy” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for green with envy is 15 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɹiːn wɪð ˈɛn.vi\. 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: "Vert de jalousie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for green with envy 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 green with envy, spelled G-R-E-E-N- -W-I-T-H- -E-N-V-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vert de jalousie.
Synonyms
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 “green with envy”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-E-E-N- -W-I-T-H- -E-N-V-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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