jeter le grappin sur
\ʒə.te lə ɡʁa.pɛ̃ syʁ\
The verdict
“jeter le grappin sur” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Se rendre maître de l'esprit ou de la fortune de quelqu’un ; le dominer ; l’accaparer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeter le grappin sur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.te lə ɡʁa.pɛ̃ syʁ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeter le grappin sur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeter le grappin sur is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.te lə ɡʁa.pɛ̃ syʁ\. 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: "Se rendre maître de l'esprit ou de la fortune de quelqu’un ; le dominer ; l’accaparer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jeter le grappin sur 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 le grappin sur, spelled J-E-T-E-R- -L-E- -G-R-A-P-P-I-N- -S-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se rendre maître de l'esprit ou de la fortune de quelqu’un ; le dominer ; l’accaparer.
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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- -L-E- -G-R-A-P-P-I-N- -S-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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