traiter par dessous la jambe
\tʁɛ.te paʁ də.sy la ʒɑ̃b\
The verdict
“traiter par dessous la jambe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traiter ses devoirs avec tellement de dédain qu'on en obtient un résultat médiocre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-traiter-par-dessous-la-j · traiter par dessous la jambe · French
traiter par dessous la jambe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 28 letters
- VOW-10 10 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | traiter par dessous la jambe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɛ.te paʁ də.sy la ʒɑ̃b\ |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
traiter par dessous la jambe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁɛ.te paʁ də.sy la ʒɑ̃b\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Traiter ses devoirs avec tellement de dédain qu'on en obtient un résultat médiocre.".
traiter par dessous la jambe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is traiter par dessous la jambe, spelled T-R-A-I-T-E-R- -P-A-R- -D-E-S-S-O-U-S- -L-A- -J-A-M-B-E.
Definition
- 1Traiter ses devoirs avec tellement de dédain qu'on en obtient un résultat médiocre.
Synonyms
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.