souffler le chaud et le froid

\su.fle lə ʃo e lə fʁwa\

/\su.fle lə ʃo e lə fʁwa\/ verb

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The verdict

“souffler le chaud et le froid” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
29
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être ambigu, louer et blâmer une même chose, parler pour et contre une personne, être tour à tour d’avis contraires.

Key facts for souffler le chaud et le froid
PropertyValue
Headwordsouffler le chaud et le froid
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\su.fle lə ʃo e lə fʁwa\
Letters29
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “souffler le chaud et le froid” sits in French frequency

souffler le chaud et le froid 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.

Rare enough to double-check

souffler le chaud et le froid is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \su.fle lə ʃo e lə fʁwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être ambigu, louer et blâmer une même chose, parler pour et contre une personne, être tour à tour d’avis contraires.".

souffler le chaud et le froid has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is souffler le chaud et le froid, spelled S-O-U-F-F-L-E-R- -L-E- -C-H-A-U-D- -E-T- -L-E- -F-R-O-I-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être ambigu, louer et blâmer une même chose, parler pour et contre une personne, être tour à tour d’avis contraires.

This word in other languages

blow hot and cold(English)

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 "souffler le chaud et le froid"?
"souffler le chaud et le froid" is spelled S-O-U-F-F-L-E-R- -L-E- -C-H-A-U-D- -E-T- -L-E- -F-R-O-I-D. The IPA pronunciation is \su.fle lə ʃo e lə fʁwa\.
What does "souffler le chaud et le froid" mean?
As a verb, "souffler le chaud et le froid" means: Être ambigu, louer et blâmer une même chose, parler pour et contre une personne, être tour à tour d’avis contraires.
How do you pronounce "souffler le chaud et le froid"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "souffler le chaud et le froid" is \su.fle lə ʃo e lə fʁwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "souffler le chaud et le froid" come from?
"souffler le chaud et le froid" 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 “souffler le chaud et le froid”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is S-O-U-F-F-L-E-R- -L-E- -C-H-A-U-D- -E-T- -L-E- -F-R-O-I-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \su.fle lə ʃo e lə fʁwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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