n’avoir cure
\n‿a.vwaʁ kyʁ\
The verdict
“n’avoir cure” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ne pas se soucier, ne pas se préoccuper de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-n-avoir-cure · n’avoir cure · French
n’avoir cure · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" 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 | 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « n’avoir cure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
n’avoir cure is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \n‿a.vwaʁ kyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how n’avoir cure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’il te plaisait m’aimer, par tes yeux je te jure Que d’une autre amitié jamais je n’aurais cure.
Nous allons reprendre notre vie d’insouciance, oubliant tous les vilains spectacles, toutes les vilaines pensées du monde que nous venons de traverser ; nous allons être parfaitement ignorants et n’avoir cure que de nous aimer.
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.