y mettre du sien
Letters
16 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
y mettre du sien is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire quelque sacrifice d’argent ; contribuer à quelque chose. Pronounced \i mɛ.tʁə dy sjɛ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | y mettre du sien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i mɛ.tʁə dy sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for y mettre du sien is 16 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i mɛ.tʁə dy sjɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for y mettre du sien in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 y mettre du sien, spelled Y- -M-E-T-T-R-E- -D-U- -S-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire quelque sacrifice d’argent ; contribuer à quelque chose.
- 2Faire quelque concession ; s’imposer des sacrifices.
- 3Faire des pieds et des mains.
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