se mettre la rate au court-bouillon
\sə mɛ.tʁə la ʁa.t‿o kuʁ.bu.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“se mettre la rate au court-bouillon” 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
- 35
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se faire du souci inutilement, sans raison.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se mettre la rate au court-bouillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə mɛ.tʁə la ʁa.t‿o kuʁ.bu.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 35 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “se mettre la rate au court-bouillon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se mettre la rate au court-bouillon is 35 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə mɛ.tʁə la ʁa.t‿o kuʁ.bu.jɔ̃\. 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: "Se faire du souci inutilement, sans raison.".
No misspelling variants are generated for se mettre la rate au court-bouillon in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is se mettre la rate au court-bouillon, spelled S-E- -M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-A- -R-A-T-E- -A-U- -C-O-U-R-T---B-O-U-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Se faire du souci inutilement, sans raison.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-E- -M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-A- -R-A-T-E- -A-U- -C-O-U-R-T---B-O-U-I-L-L-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.