mettre pavillon bas
The verdict
“mettre pavillon bas” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Baisser le pavillon pour annoncer qu’on se rend.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-pavillon-bas · mettre pavillon bas · French
mettre pavillon bas · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 pavillon bas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre pavillon bas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre pavillon bas is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mettre pavillon bas, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mettre pavillon bas, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -P-A-V-I-L-L-O-N- -B-A-S.
Definition
- 1Baisser le pavillon pour annoncer qu’on se rend.
- 2Céder et se reconnaître inférieur à la personne à qui l’on se trouve comparé, avec qui l’on est en concurrence, en contestation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mettre pavillon bas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un homme éminent, devant qui il faut mettre pavillon bas.
Synonyms
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.