mettre à jour

\mɛ.tʁ‿a ʒuʁ\

/\mɛ.tʁ‿a ʒuʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“mettre à jour” 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
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire correspondre à l’état actuel du savoir, du progrès, des derniers développements, etc.

Key facts for mettre à jour
PropertyValue
Headwordmettre à jour
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɛ.tʁ‿a ʒuʁ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “mettre à jour” sits in French frequency

mettre à jour falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mettre à jour is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁ‿a ʒuʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

mettre à jour doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mettre à jour, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -À- -J-O-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire correspondre à l’état actuel du savoir, du progrès, des derniers développements, etc.
  2. 2
    Mettre au jour ; faire apparaître ce qui était dissimulé

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mettre à jour"?
"mettre à jour" is spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -À- -J-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛ.tʁ‿a ʒuʁ\.
What does "mettre à jour" mean?
As a verb, "mettre à jour" means: Faire correspondre à l’état actuel du savoir, du progrès, des derniers développements, etc.
How do you pronounce "mettre à jour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mettre à jour" is \mɛ.tʁ‿a ʒuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mettre à jour" come from?
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Using “mettre à jour”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is M-E-T-T-R-E- -À- -J-O-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \mɛ.tʁ‿a ʒuʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list