mettre en évidence
\mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿e.vi.dɑ̃s\
The verdict
“mettre en évidence” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Placer de façon à être vu de tout le monde ou bien faire connaître clairement, manifestement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre en évidence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿e.vi.dɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mettre en évidence” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mettre en évidence is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿e.vi.dɑ̃s\. 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: "Placer de façon à être vu de tout le monde ou bien faire connaître clairement, manifestement.".
Zero misspellings are on record for mettre en évidence in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mettre en évidence, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -É-V-I-D-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Placer de façon à être vu de tout le monde ou bien faire connaître clairement, manifestement.
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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.
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Using “mettre en évidence”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -É-V-I-D-E-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.