takes the piss
The verdict
“takes the piss” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Troisième personne du singulier de to take the piss.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | takes the piss |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \teɪks ðə pɪs\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “takes the piss” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for takes the piss is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \teɪks ðə pɪs\. 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: "Troisième personne du singulier de to take the piss.".
No misspelling variants are generated for takes the piss in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 takes the piss, spelled T-A-K-E-S- -T-H-E- -P-I-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de to take the piss.
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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Using “takes the piss”
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-K-E-S- -T-H-E- -P-I-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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