mettre entre parenthèses

/\mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.tʁə pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛz\/ verb

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Language

French

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mettre entre parenthèses is aFrenchverb. It means: Placer un mot ou un groupe de mots que l'on veut isoler dans une phrase entre deux signes typographiques en forme d'arc de cercle ( ). Pronounced \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.tʁə pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛz\.

Key facts for mettre entre parenthèses
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Headwordmettre entre parenthèses
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.tʁə pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛz\
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mettre entre parenthèses is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mettre entre parenthèses is 24 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.tʁə pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛz\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for mettre entre parenthèses 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 entre parenthèses, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N-T-R-E- -P-A-R-E-N-T-H-È-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Placer un mot ou un groupe de mots que l'on veut isoler dans une phrase entre deux signes typographiques en forme d'arc de cercle ( ).
  2. 2
    Signaler des variantes de genre ou/et de nombre, par exemple : "la ou les responsable(s) sont attendu(e)s immédiatement chez le directeur".
  3. 3
    Annoncer une note de commentaire quand les parenthèses encadrent un chiffre arabe.
  4. 4
    Mettre de côté, faire une pause, arrêter provisoirement.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mettre entre parenthèses"?
"mettre entre parenthèses" is spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N-T-R-E- -P-A-R-E-N-T-H-È-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.tʁə pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛz\.
What does "mettre entre parenthèses" mean?
As a verb, "mettre entre parenthèses" means: Placer un mot ou un groupe de mots que l'on veut isoler dans une phrase entre deux signes typographiques en forme d'arc de cercle ( ).
How do you pronounce "mettre entre parenthèses"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mettre entre parenthèses" is \mɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃.tʁə pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: 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.