je vous en prie
\ʒə vu.z‿ɑ̃ pʁi\
The verdict
“je vous en prie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Je vous supplie de faire ça.
Corpus desk
Index FR-je-vous-en-prie · je vous en prie · French
je vous en prie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" 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 | 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « je vous en prie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
je vous en prie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed \ʒə vu.z‿ɑ̃ pʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how je vous en prie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh ! ayez pitié de moi, n’allez pas à cette porte, je vous en prie, je vous en prie, je vous en prie !
— J’ai besoin de savoir ce qui lui est arrivé. Je vous en prie, madame… Le baas Marius ne m’aime pas, il ne me laissera jamais lui parler.
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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.