prendre le chou
\pʁɑ̃dʁ lə ʃu\
The verdict
“prendre le chou” 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) - Faire perdre patience.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prendre-le-chou · prendre le chou · French
prendre le chou · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « prendre le chou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prendre le chou is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɑ̃dʁ lə ʃu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prendre le chou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui, nous avons des critères de sélection, par exemple on va refuser un client qui a bu, qui nous parle mal ou qui va nous prendre le chou.
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.