six pieds sous terre
\si pje su tɛʁ\
The verdict
“six pieds sous terre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Profondément enterré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-six-pieds-sous-terre · six pieds sous terre · French
six pieds sous terre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | six pieds sous terre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si pje su tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
six pieds sous terre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \si pje su tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
six pieds sous terre has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is six pieds sous terre, spelled S-I-X- -P-I-E-D-S- -S-O-U-S- -T-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Profondément enterré.
- 2Mort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how six pieds sous terre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle avait enfoncé trois bombes à six pieds sous terre, broyé des pavés sous des boulets, brisé un canon de bronze par le milieu, jeté dans toutes les chambres toutes les fenêtres et toutes les portes, enlevé sur les toits les volets de la grande poudrière, sans un grain de sa poudre.
Si cela fût arrivé il y a six mois, c’eût été toute autre chose, je vous souhaitois alors six pieds sous terre, car vous étiez méchante comme un démon.
This word in other languages
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.