mettre au courant
\mɛ.tʁ‿o ku.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“mettre au courant” 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 September 3, 2026) - Informer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-au-courant · mettre au courant · French
mettre au courant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre au courant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁ‿o ku.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre au courant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre au courant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ.tʁ‿o ku.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for mettre au courant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mettre au courant, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -A-U- -C-O-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Informer.
- 2Mettre à jour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mettre au courant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Je vous remercie, mon cher duc, de cet appui qu'il vous plaît de me donner; mais ne serait-il pas convenable que vous me missiez au courant de vos projets, de cette façon je pourrais, au besoin, vous venir en aide, […].
[…] , les salaires du premier mois ne rapportèrent qu’une somme insignifiante, car il avait fallu que les jeunes filles se missent au courant des détails des travaux qu’on leur avait assignés.
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.