jeter le doute
\ʒə.te lə dut\
The verdict
“jeter le doute” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Créer le doute ; plonger dans l’incertitude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jeter-le-doute · jeter le doute · French
jeter le doute · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeter le doute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.te lə dut\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
jeter le doute is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒə.te lə dut\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Créer le doute ; plonger dans l’incertitude.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jeter le doute, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is jeter le doute, spelled J-E-T-E-R- -L-E- -D-O-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Créer le doute ; plonger dans l’incertitude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jeter le doute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce serait résolument politique, dans la mesure où cela mettrait au défi les discours sceptiques, qui remettent en cause l’interprétation des données disponibles, quitte à jeter le doute sur les travaux scientifiques, comme les discours collapsologiques, qui spéculent sur l’effondrement prochain de notre monde, au risque d’alimenter les peurs et de déchaîn…
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.