perdre du terrain
The verdict
“perdre du terrain” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Se laisser distancer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perdre du terrain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.dʁə dy tɛ.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “perdre du terrain” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perdre du terrain is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.dʁə dy tɛ.ʁɛ̃\. 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 terrain 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 terrain, spelled P-E-R-D-R-E- -D-U- -T-E-R-R-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se laisser distancer.
- 2Reculer peu à peu, dans un contexte où ce mouvement est considéré comme peu souhaitable.
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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-R-R-A-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɛʁ.dʁə dy tɛ.ʁɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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