remettre les pendules à l’heure
\ʁə.mɛ.tʁə le pɑ̃.dy.l‿a l‿œʁ\
The verdict
“remettre les pendules à l’heure” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 31
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre les choses au point.
Corpus desk
Index FR-remettre-les-pendules-a- · remettre les pendules à l’heure · French
remettre les pendules à l’heure · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 31 letters
- VOW-11 11 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" 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 | remettre les pendules à l’heure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.mɛ.tʁə le pɑ̃.dy.l‿a l‿œʁ\ |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
remettre les pendules à l’heure is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.mɛ.tʁə le pɑ̃.dy.l‿a l‿œʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mettre les choses au point.".
Zero misspellings are on record for remettre les pendules à l’heure in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 remettre les pendules à l’heure, spelled R-E-M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -P-E-N-D-U-L-E-S- -À- -L-’-H-E-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Mettre les choses au point.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how remettre les pendules à l’heure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour un peu, on aurait cru être sur le plancher des vaches. Un seul coup d’œil par-dessus la rambarde remettait les pendules à l’heure. Il y avait déjà deux jours que le bateau filait vers le grand Nord, à la vitesse maintenue de vingt nœuds.
Ils s’étaient retrouvés au Flamingo, un des hôtels les plus luxueux de la ville, avec une boîte de nuit au premier étage. Malko décida de remettre les pendules à l’heure.
Synonyms
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.