mettre la main au portefeuille
\mɛtʁ la mɛ̃ o pɔʁ.tə.fœj\
The verdict
“mettre la main au portefeuille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 30
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Payer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-la-main-au-portef · mettre la main au portefeuille · French
mettre la main au portefeuille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 30 letters
- VOW-13 13 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 la main au portefeuille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛtʁ la mɛ̃ o pɔʁ.tə.fœj\ |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre la main au portefeuille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre la main au portefeuille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛtʁ la mɛ̃ o pɔʁ.tə.fœj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Payer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mettre la main au portefeuille, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mettre la main au portefeuille, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-A- -M-A-I-N- -A-U- -P-O-R-T-E-F-E-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Payer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mettre la main au portefeuille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Renaissance française coupait les vivres, on voulait des "résultats tangibles" avant de remettre la main au portefeuille.
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.