mettre à la lourde
\mɛtʁ‿a la luʁd\
The verdict
“mettre à la lourde” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire sortir, chasser, virer quelqu’un de quelque part.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre à la lourde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛtʁ‿a la luʁd\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mettre à la lourde” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mettre à la lourde is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛtʁ‿a la luʁd\. 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: "Faire sortir, chasser, virer quelqu’un de quelque part.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mettre à la lourde, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mettre à la lourde, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -À- -L-A- -L-O-U-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Faire sortir, chasser, virer quelqu’un de quelque part.
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 “mettre à la lourde”
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- -L-A- -L-O-U-R-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛtʁ‿a la luʁd\ (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.