jouer gros jeu
\ʒwe ɡʁo ʒø\
The verdict
“jouer gros jeu” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Miser, dans les jeux d'argent, des sommes importantes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jouer gros jeu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒwe ɡʁo ʒø\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jouer gros jeu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jouer gros jeu is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwe ɡʁo ʒø\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for jouer gros jeu 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 jouer gros jeu, spelled J-O-U-E-R- -G-R-O-S- -J-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Miser, dans les jeux d'argent, des sommes importantes.
- 2Se mettre dans une situation où l’on risque un échec important amputant ses biens, sa réputation.
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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-O-U-E-R- -G-R-O-S- -J-E-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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