remuer le couteau dans la plaie

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for remuer le couteau dans la plaie is 31 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.mɥe lə ku.to dɑ̃ la plɛ\. 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: "Augmenter ou raviver une douleur morale.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for remuer le couteau dans la plaie in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 le couteau dans la plaie, spelled R-E-M-U-E-R- -L-E- -C-O-U-T-E-A-U- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -P-L-A-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.