mettre les bouts
\mɛtʁ le bu\
The verdict
“mettre les bouts” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se casser, s’en aller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-les-bouts · mettre les bouts · French
mettre les bouts · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 les bouts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛtʁ le bu\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre les bouts » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre les bouts is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛtʁ le bu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se casser, s’en aller.".
mettre les bouts has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mettre les bouts, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -B-O-U-T-S.
Definition
- 1Se casser, s’en aller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mettre les bouts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand ça le prenait, il se lançait dans des laïus de ce genre, on aurait dit un prédicateur de village. Sachant qu’il valait mieux pas protester, Curt a mis les bouts.
Mon copain Jacques a mis les bouts, Toutes voiles dehors et vent debout Il chante dans les Alizés Quelques chansons dont le succès N'aura jamais su le griser
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.