mettre l’épaule à la roue
\mɛtʁ l‿e.po.l‿a la ʁu\
The verdict
“mettre l’épaule à la roue” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Travailler soi-même à quelque chose, s’engager dans une action concrète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-l-epaule-a-la-rou · mettre l’épaule à la roue · French
mettre l’épaule à la roue · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 25 letters
- VOW-11 11 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 l’épaule à la roue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛtʁ l‿e.po.l‿a la ʁu\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mettre l’épaule à la roue is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛtʁ l‿e.po.l‿a la ʁu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Travailler soi-même à quelque chose, s’engager dans une action concrète.".
mettre l’épaule à la roue doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mettre l’épaule à la roue, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-’-É-P-A-U-L-E- -À- -L-A- -R-O-U-E.
Definition
- 1Travailler soi-même à quelque chose, s’engager dans une action concrète.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mettre l’épaule à la roue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais nous croyons que c’était notre devoir de citoyen de mettre l’épaule à la roue, de donner quelque chose à la communauté, de donner l’exemple.
Jean Charest insiste sur le fait que tout le monde devra mettre l'épaule à la roue concernant le budget.
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.