péter de la broue
\pe.te d‿la bʁu\
The verdict
“péter de la broue” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire de l’esbroufe, se vanter, essayer d’en imposer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | péter de la broue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.te d‿la bʁu\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “péter de la broue” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for péter de la broue is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.te d‿la bʁu\. 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: "Faire de l’esbroufe, se vanter, essayer d’en imposer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for péter de la broue in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct French form is péter de la broue, spelled P-É-T-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -B-R-O-U-E.
Definition
- 1Faire de l’esbroufe, se vanter, essayer d’en imposer.
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 de la broue”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-É-T-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -B-R-O-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.