meurotte
\mø.ʁɔt\
The verdict
“meurotte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sauce vinaigrette, parfois additionnée de crème fraîche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meurotte · meurotte · French
meurotte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | meurotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mø.ʁɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « meurotte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
meurotte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mø.ʁɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for meurotte, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is meurotte, spelled M-E-U-R-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sauce vinaigrette, parfois additionnée de crème fraîche.
- 2Toute sauce dans laquelle entre de la crème.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meurotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai 35 ans de cuisine derrière moi. C’est ma grand-mère qui m’a appris la recette de la meurotte, cette sauce crémée rehaussée de vinaigre qui se marie bien par exemple avec les pissenlits.
Les sauces dans lesquelle entre [la crème] prend le nom générique de meurotte. (1936).
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.