mettre des gants

/\mɛ.tʁə dɛ ɡɑ̃\/ verb

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

mettre des gants is aFrenchverb. It means: Agir avec circonspection. Pronounced \mɛ.tʁə dɛ ɡɑ̃\.

Key facts for mettre des gants
PropertyValue
Headwordmettre des gants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɛ.tʁə dɛ ɡɑ̃\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mettre des gants is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mettre des gants is 16 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁə dɛ ɡɑ̃\. 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: "Agir avec circonspection.".

No misspelling variants are generated for mettre des gants 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 des gants, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -D-E-S- -G-A-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Agir avec circonspection.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mettre des gants"?
"mettre des gants" is spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -D-E-S- -G-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛ.tʁə dɛ ɡɑ̃\.
What does "mettre des gants" mean?
As a verb, "mettre des gants" means: Agir avec circonspection.
How do you pronounce "mettre des gants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mettre des gants" is \mɛ.tʁə dɛ ɡɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mettre des gants" come from?
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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.