mettre les voiles

/\mɛ.tʁə lɛ vwal\/ verb

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

mettre les voiles is aFrenchverb. It means: Appareiller, embarquer, quitter un port. Pronounced \mɛ.tʁə lɛ vwal\.

Key facts for mettre les voiles
PropertyValue
Headwordmettre les voiles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɛ.tʁə lɛ vwal\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mettre les voiles 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 les voiles is 17 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁə lɛ vwal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mettre les voiles 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 les voiles, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -V-O-I-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Appareiller, embarquer, quitter un port.
  2. 2
    Partir, avec une nuance d’inéluctabilité.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mettre les voiles"?
"mettre les voiles" is spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -V-O-I-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛ.tʁə lɛ vwal\.
What does "mettre les voiles" mean?
As a verb, "mettre les voiles" means: Appareiller, embarquer, quitter un port.
How do you pronounce "mettre les voiles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mettre les voiles" is \mɛ.tʁə lɛ vwal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mettre les voiles" 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.