partir en cacahouète
\paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ ka.ka.wɛt\
The verdict
“partir en cacahouète” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partir en vrille, prendre une mauvaise tournure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-partir-en-cacahouete · partir en cacahouète · French
partir en cacahouète · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | partir en cacahouète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ ka.ka.wɛt\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « partir en cacahouète » en français
Rare enough to double-check
partir en cacahouète is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ ka.ka.wɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partir en vrille, prendre une mauvaise tournure.".
partir en cacahouète has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is partir en cacahouète, spelled P-A-R-T-I-R- -E-N- -C-A-C-A-H-O-U-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Partir en vrille, prendre une mauvaise tournure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how partir en cacahouète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ça, c’est l’état des choses à l’instant où on se parle et ça peut très vite partir en cacahuète, donc tout ce qu’on pourra faire à partir de maintenant s’apparente juste à du répit…
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.