mettre hors service
\mɛtʁ ɔʁ sɛʁ.vis\
The verdict
“mettre hors service” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action d’arrêter l’exploitation ou l’utilisation d'un équipement ou de toute installation.
| 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) |
Where “mettre hors service” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mettre hors service is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛtʁ ɔʁ sɛʁ.vis\. 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: "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.
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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.
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Using “mettre hors service”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-T-T-R-E- -H-O-R-S- -S-E-R-V-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛtʁ ɔʁ sɛʁ.vis\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.