mettre en balance
\mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ ba.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“mettre en balance” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peser le pour et le contre, les avantages et les inconvénients.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-en-balance · mettre en balance · French
mettre en balance · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 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 en balance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ ba.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre en balance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre en balance is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ ba.lɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peser le pour et le contre, les avantages et les inconvénients.".
mettre en balance doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mettre en balance, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -B-A-L-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Peser le pour et le contre, les avantages et les inconvénients.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mettre en balance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut mettre cela en balance avec la liberté des grands chemins. — Il n’y a pas de balance, dis-je, et je vous assure, madame, que je sens tout le prix de votre proposition.
– Je te jure, mi alma, que je n’ai jamais songé à mettre notre amour en balance…
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.