jeter un froid
The verdict
“jeter un froid” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Créer un malaise, un blocage dans une discussion, par un acte ou une parole déplacée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeter un froid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.te.ʁ‿œ̃ fʁwa\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeter un froid” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeter un froid is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.te.ʁ‿œ̃ fʁwa\. 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: "Créer un malaise, un blocage dans une discussion, par un acte ou une parole déplacée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jeter un froid 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 un froid, spelled J-E-T-E-R- -U-N- -F-R-O-I-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Créer un malaise, un blocage dans une discussion, par un acte ou une parole déplacée.
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Using “jeter un froid”
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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-T-E-R- -U-N- -F-R-O-I-D — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒə.te.ʁ‿œ̃ fʁwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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