mettre dans le mille
\mɛtʁ dɑ̃ lə mil\
The verdict
“mettre dans le mille” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonyme de faire mouche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre dans le mille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛtʁ dɑ̃ lə mil\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mettre dans le mille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mettre dans le mille is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛtʁ dɑ̃ lə mil\. 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: "Synonyme de faire mouche.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mettre dans le mille, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 dans le mille, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -M-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de faire mouche.
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 dans le mille”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-T-T-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -M-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛtʁ dɑ̃ lə mil\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.