jeter une lumière crue
\ʒə.tɛ yn ly.mjɛʁ kʁy\
The verdict
“jeter une lumière crue” 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
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Mettre en évidence sans précaution, sans pudeur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeter une lumière crue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.tɛ yn ly.mjɛʁ kʁy\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeter une lumière crue” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeter une lumière crue is 22 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə.tɛ yn ly.mjɛʁ kʁy\. 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: "Mettre en évidence sans précaution, sans pudeur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jeter une lumière crue 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 une lumière crue, spelled J-E-T-E-R- -U-N-E- -L-U-M-I-È-R-E- -C-R-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mettre en évidence sans précaution, sans pudeur.
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- -U-N-E- -L-U-M-I-È-R-E- -C-R-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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