ventre mou

\vɑ̃.tʁə mu\

/\vɑ̃.tʁə mu\/ noun

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The verdict

“ventre mou” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Point faible d’une entité comme un État ou une coalition, dans une perspective d’agression potentielle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ventre-mou · ventre mou · French

ventre mou · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "V" 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.

Key facts for ventre mou
PropertyValue
Headwordventre mou
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɑ̃.tʁə mu\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “ventre mou” sits in French frequency

ventre mouranks outside the top 100,000 French headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ventre mou is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɑ̃.tʁə mu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for ventre mou in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ventre mou, spelled V-E-N-T-R-E- -M-O-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Point faible d’une entité comme un État ou une coalition, dans une perspective d’agression potentielle.
  2. 2
    (Par glissement de sens) Partie d’un ensemble qui se caractérise par sa mollesse, son apathie, son suivisme (telle que le centre d’un parti politique, par exemple).
  3. 3
    Groupe des équipes qui occupent le milieu du classement dans un championnat de football.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ventre mou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Hafez el-Assad considérait que ce petit pays était le ventre mou de la Syrie. Sur un plan stratégique, il y avait la considérable trouée de la vallée de la Békaa qui, venant du nord d’Israël, longeait toute sa frontière ouest et les hauteurs des monts Barouk et Sannine d’où l'on voyait la capitale syrienne à l’œil nu.
  2. Loin du ventre mou du PS, qui courbe l’échine en votant en silence, il y a toujours eu, aussi, un courant qui entend rompre avec le catéchisme des motions toutes faites et le prêt-à-porter des idéologies fossiles.

This word in other languages

soft underbelly(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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ventre mou"?
"ventre mou" is spelled V-E-N-T-R-E- -M-O-U. The IPA pronunciation is \vɑ̃.tʁə mu\.
What does "ventre mou" mean?
As a noun, "ventre mou" means: Point faible d’une entité comme un État ou une coalition, dans une perspective d’agression potentielle.
How do you pronounce "ventre mou"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ventre mou" is \vɑ̃.tʁə mu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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