œil pour œil
\œj pu.ʁ‿œj\
The verdict
“œil pour œil” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme raccourcie de œil pour œil, dent pour dent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-il-pour-il · œil pour œil · French
œil pour œil · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Œ" 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 | œil pour œil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \œj pu.ʁ‿œj\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « œil pour œil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
œil pour œil is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed \œj pu.ʁ‿œj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme raccourcie de œil pour œil, dent pour dent.".
œil pour œil doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is œil pour œil, spelled Œ-I-L- -P-O-U-R- -Œ-I-L.
Definition
- 1Forme raccourcie de œil pour œil, dent pour dent.
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.