n’avoir cure
\n‿a.vwaʁ kyʁ\
The verdict
“n’avoir cure” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - 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) - Ne pas se soucier, ne pas se préoccuper de quelque chose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | n’avoir cure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \n‿a.vwaʁ kyʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “n’avoir cure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for n’avoir cure is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \n‿a.vwaʁ kyʁ\. 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: "Ne pas se soucier, ne pas se préoccuper de quelque chose.".
Zero misspellings are on record for n’avoir cure in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is n’avoir cure, spelled N-’-A-V-O-I-R- -C-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ne pas se soucier, ne pas se préoccuper de quelque chose.
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 “n’avoir cure”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-’-A-V-O-I-R- -C-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \n‿a.vwaʁ kyʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.