mettre à la porte
\mɛ.tʁ‿a la pɔʁt\
The verdict
“mettre à la porte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- 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 porte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁ‿a la pɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mettre à la porte” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mettre à la porte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ.tʁ‿a la pɔʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mettre à la porte, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mettre à la porte, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -À- -L-A- -P-O-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Faire sortir, chasser, virer quelqu’un de quelque part.
- 2Licencier, donner son congé, remercier.
- 3Se débarrasser de quelque chose.
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.
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Using “mettre à la porte”
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- -P-O-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛ.tʁ‿a la pɔʁt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.