mettre hors service
\mɛtʁ ɔʁ sɛʁ.vis\
The verdict
“mettre hors service” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’arrêter l’exploitation ou l’utilisation d'un équipement ou de toute installation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-hors-service · mettre hors service · French
mettre hors service · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 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 hors service |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛtʁ ɔʁ sɛʁ.vis\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre hors service » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre hors service is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛtʁ ɔʁ sɛʁ.vis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’arrêter l’exploitation ou l’utilisation d'un équipement ou de toute installation.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mettre hors service in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mettre hors service, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -H-O-R-S- -S-E-R-V-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’arrêter l’exploitation ou l’utilisation d'un équipement ou de toute installation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mettre hors service appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais selon Berne, l’armée n’a besoin d’avoir en stock que 71 de ces vieux chars. « Pour les 25 unités restantes, aucune affectation n’est prévue; elles pourront donc être mises hors service et être revendues sans que cela se fasse au détriment de l’armée », écrit le gouvernement.
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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.