je vous en prie
\ʒə vu.z‿ɑ̃ pʁi\
The verdict
“je vous en prie” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Je vous supplie de faire ça.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | je vous en prie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ʒə vu.z‿ɑ̃ pʁi\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “je vous en prie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for je vous en prie is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒə vu.z‿ɑ̃ pʁi\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for je vous en prie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct French form is je vous en prie, spelled J-E- -V-O-U-S- -E-N- -P-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Je vous supplie de faire ça.
- 2Allez-y, n’hésitez pas.
- 3De rien, il n’y a pas de quoi. Formule de politesse utilisée pour répondre à un remerciement, ou pour accompagner une requête ou un ordre.
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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 “je vous en prie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-E- -V-O-U-S- -E-N- -P-R-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒə vu.z‿ɑ̃ pʁi\ (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.