payer les pots cassés
\pe.je lɛ po ka.se\
The verdict
“payer les pots cassés” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Payer les dommages matériels, subir les conséquences fâcheuses d’une affaire, d’une aventure, etc., endosser la responsabilité d’une action, assumer des faits souvent indépendants de sa volonté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | payer les pots cassés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.je lɛ po ka.se\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “payer les pots cassés” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for payer les pots cassés is 21 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.je lɛ po ka.se\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Payer les dommages matériels, subir les conséquences fâcheuses d’une affaire, d’une aventure, etc., endosser la responsabilité d’une action, assumer des faits souvent indépendants de sa volonté.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for payer les pots cassés in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is payer les pots cassés, spelled P-A-Y-E-R- -L-E-S- -P-O-T-S- -C-A-S-S-É-S.
Definition
- 1Payer les dommages matériels, subir les conséquences fâcheuses d’une affaire, d’une aventure, etc., endosser la responsabilité d’une action, assumer des faits souvent indépendants de sa volonté.
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Using “payer les pots cassés”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-Y-E-R- -L-E-S- -P-O-T-S- -C-A-S-S-É-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pe.je lɛ po ka.se\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.