jeter des perles aux pourceaux
The verdict
“jeter des perles aux pourceaux” 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
- 30
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Donner quelque chose à quelqu’un qui ne saura pas l’apprécier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeter des perles aux pourceaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.te de pɛʁ.l‿o puʁ.so\ |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeter des perles aux pourceaux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeter des perles aux pourceaux is 30 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.te de pɛʁ.l‿o puʁ.so\. 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: "Donner quelque chose à quelqu’un qui ne saura pas l’apprécier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jeter des perles aux pourceaux 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 perles aux pourceaux, spelled J-E-T-E-R- -D-E-S- -P-E-R-L-E-S- -A-U-X- -P-O-U-R-C-E-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Donner quelque chose à quelqu’un qui ne saura pas l’apprécier.
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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-T-E-R- -D-E-S- -P-E-R-L-E-S- -A-U-X- -P-O-U-R-C-E-A-U-X — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒə.te de pɛʁ.l‿o puʁ.so\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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