mettre en examen
The verdict
“mettre en examen” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Procéder à l’inculpation d’une personne que l’on pense être coupable d’un délit ou d’un crime.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre en examen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿ɛ.ɡza.mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mettre en examen” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mettre en examen is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿ɛ.ɡza.mɛ̃\. 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: "Procéder à l’inculpation d’une personne que l’on pense être coupable d’un délit ou d’un crime.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mettre en examen 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 en examen, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -E-X-A-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Procéder à l’inculpation d’une personne que l’on pense être coupable d’un délit ou d’un crime.
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Using “mettre en examen”
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- -E-X-A-M-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿ɛ.ɡza.mɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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