jeter l’argent par les fenêtres
\ʒə.te l‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ paʁ le fə.nɛtʁ\
The verdict
“jeter l’argent par les fenêtres” 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) — Dépenser sans compter, dépenser excessivement, déraisonnablement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeter l’argent par les fenêtres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.te l‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ paʁ le fə.nɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeter l’argent par les fenêtres” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeter l’argent par les fenêtres is 31 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.te l‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ paʁ le fə.nɛtʁ\. 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: "Dépenser sans compter, dépenser excessivement, déraisonnablement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jeter l’argent par les fenêtres 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 l’argent par les fenêtres, spelled J-E-T-E-R- -L-’-A-R-G-E-N-T- -P-A-R- -L-E-S- -F-E-N-Ê-T-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dépenser sans compter, dépenser excessivement, déraisonnablement.
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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-T-E-R- -L-’-A-R-G-E-N-T- -P-A-R- -L-E-S- -F-E-N-Ê-T-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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