laisser de marbre
\lɛ.se də maʁbʁ\
The verdict
“laisser de marbre” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ne pas provoquer de réaction ; laisser indifférent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laisser de marbre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɛ.se də maʁbʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laisser de marbre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for laisser de marbre is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ.se də maʁbʁ\. 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: "Ne pas provoquer de réaction ; laisser indifférent.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for laisser de marbre, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is laisser de marbre, spelled L-A-I-S-S-E-R- -D-E- -M-A-R-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ne pas provoquer de réaction ; laisser indifférent.
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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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-I-S-S-E-R- -D-E- -M-A-R-B-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lɛ.se də maʁbʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.