mettre au rancart
\mɛ.tʁ‿o ʁɑ̃.kaʁ\
The verdict
“mettre au rancart” 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) - Mettre au rebut. Seule l'orthographe "rancart" est valide dans ce sens.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre au rancart |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁ‿o ʁɑ̃.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mettre au rancart” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mettre au rancart is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ.tʁ‿o ʁɑ̃.kaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mettre au rebut. Seule l'orthographe "rancart" est valide dans ce sens.".
mettre au rancart has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mettre au rancart, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -A-U- -R-A-N-C-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Mettre au rebut. Seule l'orthographe "rancart" est valide dans ce sens.
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 au rancart”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-T-T-R-E- -A-U- -R-A-N-C-A-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.