jeter de l’huile sur le feu
\ʒə.te də l‿ɥil syʁ lə fø\
The verdict
“jeter de l’huile sur le feu” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Aggraver, envenimer une situation, une tension, une hostilité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeter de l’huile sur le feu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.te də l‿ɥil syʁ lə fø\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeter de l’huile sur le feu” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
jeter de l’huile sur le feu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒə.te də l‿ɥil syʁ lə fø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aggraver, envenimer une situation, une tension, une hostilité.".
jeter de l’huile sur le feu has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is jeter de l’huile sur le feu, spelled J-E-T-E-R- -D-E- -L-’-H-U-I-L-E- -S-U-R- -L-E- -F-E-U.
Definition
- 1Aggraver, envenimer une situation, une tension, une hostilité.
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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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-T-E-R- -D-E- -L-’-H-U-I-L-E- -S-U-R- -L-E- -F-E-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.