jouer du serre-croupière
\ʒwe dy sɛʁ.kʁu.pjɛʁ\
The verdict
“jouer du serre-croupière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire l’amour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jouer-du-serre-croupiere · jouer du serre-croupière · French
jouer du serre-croupière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 24 letters
- VOW-11 11 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 | jouer du serre-croupière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒwe dy sɛʁ.kʁu.pjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « jouer du serre-croupière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
jouer du serre-croupière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒwe dy sɛʁ.kʁu.pjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire l’amour.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for jouer du serre-croupière in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is jouer du serre-croupière, spelled J-O-U-E-R- -D-U- -S-E-R-R-E---C-R-O-U-P-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Faire l’amour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jouer du serre-croupière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Clunem agitare.(JUV., Sat.IV.) C'est ce que le curé de Meudon et Shakespeare appellent faire la bête à deux dos, jouer du serre-croupière.
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.