la mettre en veilleuse
The verdict
“la mettre en veilleuse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se taire ; faire silence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-la-mettre-en-veilleuse · la mettre en veilleuse · French
la mettre en veilleuse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" 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 | la mettre en veilleuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « la mettre en veilleuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
la mettre en veilleuse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se taire ; faire silence.".
la mettre en veilleuse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is la mettre en veilleuse, spelled L-A- -M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -V-E-I-L-L-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Se taire ; faire silence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how la mettre en veilleuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’est pas parce que son producteur a décidé de lui redorer le blason qu’il va baisser les bras. Et puisque chez Riverside on lui fait comprendre qu’il faut la mettre en veilleuse, eh bien, c’est sur un autre label, Signal, qu’il déversera son trop-plein de compositions.
Je viens de demander une explication à Matt, et il m'a dit « de la mettre en veilleuse »... Oui, vous avez bien entendu, de la mettre en veilleuse ! Et dire que c'est un amoureux des mots !
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.