mettre en usage
\mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿y.zaʒ\
The verdict
“mettre en usage” 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) - Employer à quelque usage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-en-usage · mettre en usage · French
mettre en usage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 usage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿y.zaʒ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre en usage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre en usage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿y.zaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Employer à quelque usage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mettre en usage, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mettre en usage, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -U-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Employer à quelque usage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mettre en usage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'homme primitif, […], ne savait mettre en usage que des os, des cailloux, des débris de silex, et c'est avec ces matériaux qu'il fabriquait ses armes grossières et ses rares ustensiles, ainsi que le font encore quelques peuplades sauvages de la Polynésie.
Synonyms
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.