mettre le feu
\mɛ.tʁə lə fø\
The verdict
“mettre le feu” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Allumer un feu, le plus souvent dans des circonstances anormales, par inadvertance, négligence, malveillance, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre le feu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁə lə fø\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mettre le feu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mettre le feu is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁə lə fø\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mettre le feu, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mettre le feu, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-E- -F-E-U.
Definition
- 1Allumer un feu, le plus souvent dans des circonstances anormales, par inadvertance, négligence, malveillance, etc.
- 2Provoquer une bagarre, un conflit.
- 3Exciter ; provoquer une ambiance festive.
This word in other languages
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 le feu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-E- -F-E-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛ.tʁə lə fø\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.