jeter des bâtons dans les roues
\ʒə.te de bɑ.tɔ̃ dɑ̃ le ʁu\
The verdict
“jeter des bâtons dans les roues” 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
- 31
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Susciter des obstacles ; entraver une affaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeter des bâtons dans les roues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.te de bɑ.tɔ̃ dɑ̃ le ʁu\ |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeter des bâtons dans les roues” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeter des bâtons dans les roues is 31 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.te de bɑ.tɔ̃ dɑ̃ le ʁu\. 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: "Susciter des obstacles ; entraver une affaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jeter des bâtons dans les roues 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 jeter des bâtons dans les roues, spelled J-E-T-E-R- -D-E-S- -B-Â-T-O-N-S- -D-A-N-S- -L-E-S- -R-O-U-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Susciter des obstacles ; entraver une affaire.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-T-E-R- -D-E-S- -B-Â-T-O-N-S- -D-A-N-S- -L-E-S- -R-O-U-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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