jeter du lest
\ʒə.te dy lɛst\
The verdict
“jeter du lest” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Jeter des sacs de sable pour donner plus de légèreté à un aérostat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeter du lest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.te dy lɛst\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeter du lest” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeter du lest is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.te dy lɛst\. 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 du lest 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 du lest, spelled J-E-T-E-R- -D-U- -L-E-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeter des sacs de sable pour donner plus de légèreté à un aérostat.
- 2Faire les concessions, les sacrifices nécessaires pour éviter une catastrophe, pour conjurer un danger, une menace.
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-U- -L-E-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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