œil pour œil
\œj pu.ʁ‿œj\
The verdict
“œil pour œil” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forme raccourcie de œil pour œil, dent pour dent.
| 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) |
Where “œil pour œil” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for œil pour œil is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œj pu.ʁ‿œj\. 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: "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.
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Using “œil pour œil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Œ-I-L- -P-O-U-R- -Œ-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \œj pu.ʁ‿œj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.