dans la peine
\dɑ̃ la pɛn\
The verdict
“dans la peine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Dans l’affliction, dans la douleur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dans la peine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɑ̃ la pɛn\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dans la peine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dans la peine is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃ la pɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for dans la peine 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 dans la peine, spelled D-A-N-S- -L-A- -P-E-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans l’affliction, dans la douleur.
- 2Dans le besoin, dans la nécessité, dans la misère.
This word in other languages
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Using “dans la peine”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-S- -L-A- -P-E-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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