péter au frette
\pe.te o fʁɛt\
The verdict
“péter au frette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se briser, cesser de fonctionner à cause du froid.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peter-au-frette · péter au frette · French
péter au frette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « péter au frette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
péter au frette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pe.te o fʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how péter au frette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma pompe a pété au frette.
Mon oncle a failli péter au frette
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.