péter plus haut que le trou
\pe.te ply o klə tʁu\
The verdict
“péter plus haut que le trou” 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
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être snob ou trop orgueilleux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | péter plus haut que le trou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.te ply o klə tʁu\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “péter plus haut que le trou” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for péter plus haut que le trou is 27 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.te ply o klə tʁu\. 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: "Être snob ou trop orgueilleux.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for péter plus haut que le trou, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is péter plus haut que le trou, spelled P-É-T-E-R- -P-L-U-S- -H-A-U-T- -Q-U-E- -L-E- -T-R-O-U.
Definition
- 1Être snob ou trop orgueilleux.
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 plus haut que le trou”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-É-T-E-R- -P-L-U-S- -H-A-U-T- -Q-U-E- -L-E- -T-R-O-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pe.te ply o klə tʁu\ (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.