péter au frette
\pe.te o fʁɛt\
The verdict
“péter au frette” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se briser, cesser de fonctionner à cause du froid.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | péter au frette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.te o fʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “péter au frette” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for péter au frette is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.te o fʁɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for péter au frette, 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is péter au frette, spelled P-É-T-E-R- -A-U- -F-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Se briser, cesser de fonctionner à cause du froid.
- 2Mourir, faire une crise cardiaque ou une crise de nerfs ou tomber d'épuisement à cause d’émotions fortes ou de surmenage.
- 3Projet, entreprise, objet qui cesse de fonctionner en raison d'une pression ou d'une tension trop grande.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “péter au frette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-É-T-E-R- -A-U- -F-R-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pe.te o fʁɛt\ (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.