ils sont trop verts
\il sɔ̃ tʁo vɛʁ\
The verdict
“ils sont trop verts” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se dit pour railler les personnes qui font semblant de dédaigner ce qu’elles ne peuvent obtenir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ils sont trop verts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \il sɔ̃ tʁo vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ils sont trop verts” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ils sont trop verts is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \il sɔ̃ tʁo 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: "Se dit pour railler les personnes qui font semblant de dédaigner ce qu’elles ne peuvent obtenir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ils sont trop verts 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 ils sont trop verts, spelled I-L-S- -S-O-N-T- -T-R-O-P- -V-E-R-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit pour railler les personnes qui font semblant de dédaigner ce qu’elles ne peuvent obtenir.
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 “ils sont trop verts”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-L-S- -S-O-N-T- -T-R-O-P- -V-E-R-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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