les yeux fermés
The verdict
“les yeux fermés” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Sans avoir besoin de les ouvrir pour voir où l’on veut aller.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | les yeux fermés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \le.z‿jø fɛʁ.me\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “les yeux fermés” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for les yeux fermés is 15 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le.z‿jø fɛʁ.me\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for les yeux fermés 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 les yeux fermés, spelled L-E-S- -Y-E-U-X- -F-E-R-M-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sans avoir besoin de les ouvrir pour voir où l’on veut aller.
- 2Sans hésitation, comme par automatisme.
- 3Par cœur, par automatisme.
- 4Se dit lorsque, par confiance en quelqu’un ou par déférence, on fait ce qu’il désire, sans vouloir rien examiner après lui.
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Using “les yeux fermés”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-E-S- -Y-E-U-X- -F-E-R-M-É-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \le.z‿jø fɛʁ.me\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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