mettre de côté
\mɛtʁ də ko.te\
The verdict
“mettre de côté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre une chose en isolement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-de-cote · mettre de côté · French
mettre de côté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 de côté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛtʁ də ko.te\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre de côté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre de côté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛtʁ də ko.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for mettre de côté in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mettre de côté, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -D-E- -C-Ô-T-É.
Definition
- 1Mettre une chose en isolement.
- 2Garder de l’argent (ou autre chose) pour plus tard ; épargner.
- 3Ne pas parler d’une chose.
- 4Abandonner, au moins pour un temps, une chose, une personne, négliger de s’en occuper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mettre de côté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, il mit de côté son bouclier, légèrement faussé, et en reçut un autre des mains de ses écuyers ; […].
Joséfa avait fini de toucher ses cent mille francs et rien n’empêchait plus Xavier de « mettre de côté » pour ses neveux.
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.