perdre du temps
The verdict
“perdre du temps” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Gaspiller un temps qui pourrait être consacré à autre chose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perdre du temps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “perdre du temps” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perdre du temps is 15 letters long, classified as a verb. 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 misspelling variants are generated for perdre du temps in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 perdre du temps, spelled P-E-R-D-R-E- -D-U- -T-E-M-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gaspiller un temps qui pourrait être consacré à autre chose.
- 2Prendre du retard sur ce que l’on envisageait de faire ou sur ce qu’il serait souhaitable que l’on fasse.
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Using “perdre du temps”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-R-D-R-E- -D-U- -T-E-M-P-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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