mettre dans le mille
\mɛtʁ dɑ̃ lə mil\
The verdict
“mettre dans le mille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de faire mouche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-dans-le-mille · mettre dans le mille · French
mettre dans le mille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre dans le mille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre dans le mille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛtʁ dɑ̃ lə mil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mettre dans le mille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais mis dans le mille, non pas tout à fait au hasard : ce Doumergue était venu inaugurer notre Comice agricole l’année dernière et M. Duport lui avait présenté Simon.
— […], un quart d'heure plus tard, elle était dans ma piaule et vingt sept minutes plus tard je lui bouffais la chatte comme si c'était mon dernier repas. […]. — J'ai dû mettre dans le mille parce que j'avais jamais vu autant de jus de moule. Mon menton ruisselait comme ce pinceau.
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.