mettre de l’eau dans son vin
\mɛ.tʁə də l‿o dɑ̃ sɔ̃ vɛ̃\
The verdict
“mettre de l’eau dans son vin” 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
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Modérer son impétuosité, ses prétentions, ses ambitions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre de l’eau dans son vin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁə də l‿o dɑ̃ sɔ̃ vɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mettre de l’eau dans son vin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mettre de l’eau dans son vin is 28 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁə də l‿o dɑ̃ sɔ̃ vɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mettre de l’eau dans son vin in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mettre de l’eau dans son vin, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -D-E- -L-’-E-A-U- -D-A-N-S- -S-O-N- -V-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Modérer son impétuosité, ses prétentions, ses ambitions.
- 2Édulcorer.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-E-T-T-R-E- -D-E- -L-’-E-A-U- -D-A-N-S- -S-O-N- -V-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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