tuer le messager
\tɥe lə mɛ.sa.ʒe\
The verdict
“tuer le messager” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se débarrasser du porteur d’une mauvaise nouvelle sous le coup de la colère ou du dépit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuer le messager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɥe lə mɛ.sa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tuer le messager” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tuer le messager is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɥe lə mɛ.sa.ʒe\. 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 débarrasser du porteur d’une mauvaise nouvelle sous le coup de la colère ou du dépit.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tuer le messager 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 tuer le messager, spelled T-U-E-R- -L-E- -M-E-S-S-A-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se débarrasser du porteur d’une mauvaise nouvelle sous le coup de la colère ou du dépit.
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Using “tuer le messager”
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- The one correct French spelling is T-U-E-R- -L-E- -M-E-S-S-A-G-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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