jeter des pierres dans le jardin de
\ʒə.te dɛ pjɛʁ dɑ̃ lə ʒaʁ.dɛ̃ də\
The verdict
“jeter des pierres dans le jardin de” 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
- 35
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Faire des railleries couvertes, des plaintes détournées, des reproches indirects, avec l’intention que la personne visée se les applique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeter des pierres dans le jardin de |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.te dɛ pjɛʁ dɑ̃ lə ʒaʁ.dɛ̃ də\ |
| Letters | 35 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeter des pierres dans le jardin de” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeter des pierres dans le jardin de is 35 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.te dɛ pjɛʁ dɑ̃ lə ʒaʁ.dɛ̃ də\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for jeter des pierres dans le jardin de 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 pierres dans le jardin de, spelled J-E-T-E-R- -D-E-S- -P-I-E-R-R-E-S- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -J-A-R-D-I-N- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire des railleries couvertes, des plaintes détournées, des reproches indirects, avec l’intention que la personne visée se les applique.
- 2Mêler dans un discours des paroles qui attaquent quelqu’un indirectement.
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-S- -P-I-E-R-R-E-S- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -J-A-R-D-I-N- -D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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