manger du bout des dents
\mɑ̃.ʒe dy bu dɛ dɑ̃\
The verdict
“manger du bout des dents” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Manger sans appétit, distraitement, avec dégoût, dédain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manger du bout des dents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ʒe dy bu dɛ dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “manger du bout des dents” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for manger du bout des dents is 24 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃.ʒe dy bu dɛ dɑ̃\. 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: "Manger sans appétit, distraitement, avec dégoût, dédain.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for manger du bout des dents, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is manger du bout des dents, spelled M-A-N-G-E-R- -D-U- -B-O-U-T- -D-E-S- -D-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Manger sans appétit, distraitement, avec dégoût, dédain.
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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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Using “manger du bout des dents”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-N-G-E-R- -D-U- -B-O-U-T- -D-E-S- -D-E-N-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɑ̃.ʒe dy bu dɛ dɑ̃\ (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.