mettre en place
\mɛt.ʁ‿ɑ̃ plas\
The verdict
“mettre en place” 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) - Installer ; poser ; placer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-en-place · mettre en place · French
mettre en place · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 place |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛt.ʁ‿ɑ̃ plas\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre en place » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre en place is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛt.ʁ‿ɑ̃ plas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Installer ; poser ; placer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mettre en place in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mettre en place, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -P-L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Installer ; poser ; placer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mettre en place appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s'agit d'un système d’information transnational de crues mis en place dans les bassins de la Moselle, de la Nahe et, pour partie, de celui du Rhin (environ 55 000 km2).
L'église chrétienne va transformer les fantômes et les revenants en âmes en peine en même temps qu'elle met en place le Purgatoire entre l'Enfer et le Paradis. Les morts ont besoin des vivants et les moines de Cluny mettent en place la fête des morts.
This word in other languages
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.