même pas en rêve
\mɛm pa ɑ̃ ʁɛv\
The verdict
“même pas en rêve” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Se dit pour exprimer un refus catégorique ; jamais de la vie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | même pas en rêve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \mɛm pa ɑ̃ ʁɛv\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “même pas en rêve” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for même pas en rêve is 16 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛm pa ɑ̃ ʁɛv\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for même pas en rêve 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 même pas en rêve, spelled M-Ê-M-E- -P-A-S- -E-N- -R-Ê-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit pour exprimer un refus catégorique ; jamais de la vie.
- 2Se dit pour évoquer des choses qui dépassent l'imagination, de situations qui relèvent de l’impossible.
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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