se mettre
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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se mettre is aFrenchverb. It means: S’habiller. Pronounced \sə mɛtʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se mettre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se mettre is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə mɛtʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for se mettre 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 se mettre, spelled S-E- -M-E-T-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1S’habiller.
- 2Prendre place, s’installer, s’asseoir.
- 3S’installer durablement, devenir.
- 4Vivre maritalement.
- 5S’occuper à quelque chose
- 6Se réunir en vue d’une action.
- 7Commencer une action.
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