remuer ciel et terre
\ʁə.mɥe sjɛ.l‿e tɛʁ\
The verdict
“remuer ciel et terre” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire tous ses efforts, employer toutes sortes de moyens pour arriver au but qu’on se propose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remuer ciel et terre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.mɥe sjɛ.l‿e tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “remuer ciel et terre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for remuer ciel et terre is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.mɥe sjɛ.l‿e tɛʁ\. 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 tous ses efforts, employer toutes sortes de moyens pour arriver au but qu’on se propose.".
No misspelling variants are generated for remuer ciel et terre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is remuer ciel et terre, spelled R-E-M-U-E-R- -C-I-E-L- -E-T- -T-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire tous ses efforts, employer toutes sortes de moyens pour arriver au but qu’on se propose.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-E-M-U-E-R- -C-I-E-L- -E-T- -T-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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