prendre le chou
\pʁɑ̃dʁ lə ʃu\
The verdict
“prendre le chou” 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) - Faire perdre patience.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre le chou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃dʁ lə ʃu\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prendre le chou” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prendre le chou is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃dʁ lə ʃu\. 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.
prendre le chou has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 prendre le chou, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-E- -C-H-O-U.
Definition
- 1Faire perdre patience.
- 2Ennuyer.
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 “prendre le chou”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-E- -C-H-O-U - 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.