laisser pour mort
\lɛ.se puʁ mɔʁ\
The verdict
“laisser pour mort” 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) — Abandonner une personne ou un animal avec des blessures graves, dans un état de détresse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laisser pour mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɛ.se puʁ mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laisser pour mort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for laisser pour mort is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ.se puʁ mɔʁ\. 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: "Abandonner une personne ou un animal avec des blessures graves, dans un état de détresse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for laisser pour mort 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 laisser pour mort, spelled L-A-I-S-S-E-R- -P-O-U-R- -M-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abandonner une personne ou un animal avec des blessures graves, dans un état de détresse.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-I-S-S-E-R- -P-O-U-R- -M-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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