mettre en question
The verdict
“mettre en question” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Contester, disputer, ou douter de.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre en question |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ kɛs.tjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mettre en question” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mettre en question is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ kɛs.tjɔ̃\. 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: "Contester, disputer, ou douter de.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mettre en question 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 question, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contester, disputer, ou douter de.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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