mettre en colère
\mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ kɔ.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“mettre en colère” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fâcher quelqu’un, déclencher la colère de quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-en-colere · mettre en colère · French
mettre en colère · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 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 colère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ kɔ.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre en colère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre en colère is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ kɔ.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fâcher quelqu’un, déclencher la colère de quelqu’un.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mettre en colère, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 colère, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -C-O-L-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Fâcher quelqu’un, déclencher la colère de quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mettre en colère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour autant, les chiffres publiés récemment par les autorités montrent une « surmortalité exceptionnelle » dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis. Ces chiffres doivent encore faire l’objet d’analyse mais ils nous mettent en colère.
Ce retard de bus m’a mis en colère : à cause de lui, j’ai également manqué mon train.
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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.