se mettre la corde au cou

verb

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The verdict

“se mettre la corde au cou” 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
25
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se pendre, finir sa vie à l’aide d’une pendaison.

Key facts for se mettre la corde au cou
PropertyValue
Headwordse mettre la corde au cou
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters25
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “se mettre la corde au cou” sits in French frequency

se mettre la corde au cou falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for se mettre la corde au cou is 25 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for se mettre la corde au cou in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is se mettre la corde au cou, spelled S-E- -M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-A- -C-O-R-D-E- -A-U- -C-O-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se pendre, finir sa vie à l’aide d’une pendaison.
  2. 2
    Se mettre soi-même dans une situation de dépendance.
  3. 3
    Se marier.

Synonyms

passer la corde au cou

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "se mettre la corde au cou"?
"se mettre la corde au cou" is spelled S-E- -M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-A- -C-O-R-D-E- -A-U- -C-O-U.
What does "se mettre la corde au cou" mean?
As a verb, "se mettre la corde au cou" means: Se pendre, finir sa vie à l’aide d’une pendaison.
What language does "se mettre la corde au cou" come from?
"se mettre la corde au cou" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “se mettre la corde au cou”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is S-E- -M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-A- -C-O-R-D-E- -A-U- -C-O-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list