mettre à jour

\mɛ.tʁ‿a ʒuʁ\

/\mɛ.tʁ‿a ʒuʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“mettre à jour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire correspondre à l’état actuel du savoir, du progrès, des derniers développements, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mettre-a-jour · mettre à jour · French

mettre à jour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "M" 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.

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)

Longue queue: rang de « mettre à jour » en français

mettre à jourreste hors des 100.000 mots français les plus fréquents, dans la longue queue du vocabulaire technique, archaïque ou rare, là où le doute d'orthographe frappe.

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

Rare enough to double-check

mettre à jour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ.tʁ‿a ʒuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mettre à jour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une base de données spécifique au hooliganisme recense les actes violents et racistes et mettent régulièrement à jour les fichiers concernant leurs perpétrateurs.
  2. Marcq. — Il y a quelque temps, des travaux exécutée dans les gravières situées entre Marcq et Saint-Juvin, ont mis à jour les ossements d’un guerrier ainsi que les curieuses armes avec lesquelles il avait été inhumé.

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?
"mettre à jour" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list