mettre la table

/\mɛtʁ la tabl\/ verb

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15 characters

Language

French

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mettre la table is aFrenchverb. It means: Disposer, placer les couverts et le nécessaire sur une table ou sur tout autre support pour manger. Pronounced \mɛtʁ la tabl\.

Key facts for mettre la table
PropertyValue
Headwordmettre la table
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɛtʁ la tabl\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mettre la table is 15 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛtʁ la tabl\. 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: "Disposer, placer les couverts et le nécessaire sur une table ou sur tout autre support pour manger.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mettre la table in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 la table, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-A- -T-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Disposer, placer les couverts et le nécessaire sur une table ou sur tout autre support pour manger.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mettre la table"?
"mettre la table" is spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-A- -T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛtʁ la tabl\.
What does "mettre la table" mean?
As a verb, "mettre la table" means: Disposer, placer les couverts et le nécessaire sur une table ou sur tout autre support pour manger.
How do you pronounce "mettre la table"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mettre la table" is \mɛtʁ la tabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mettre la table" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.