mettre en boite
\mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ bwat\
The verdict
“mettre en boite” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emballer dans une boite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-en-boite · mettre en boite · French
mettre en boite · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 boite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ bwat\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre en boite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre en boite is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ bwat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for mettre en boite in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 en boite, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -B-O-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Emballer dans une boite.
- 2Moquer.
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.