les mettre
\le mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“les mettre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de mettre les bouts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-les-mettre · les mettre · French
les mettre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | les mettre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \le mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « les mettre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
les mettre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \le mɛtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de mettre les bouts.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for les mettre in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is les mettre, spelled L-E-S- -M-E-T-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de mettre les bouts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how les mettre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la fin, il plie l'tout, repasse d'vant la cloporte qu'il salue d'un grand coup d'bloum pour cacher sa figure, et les met.
Écoute, il faut que je les mette, j'ai rendez-vous à cinq heures avec mon dentiste. Attends-moi, il habite à côté, et j'en ai pour une demi-heure.
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.