ne connaître ni des lèvres ni des dents
\nə kɔ.nɛtʁ ni de lɛvʁ ni de dɑ̃\
The verdict
“ne connaître ni des lèvres ni des dents” 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
- 39
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ne pas se connaître du tout.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne connaître ni des lèvres ni des dents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə kɔ.nɛtʁ ni de lɛvʁ ni de dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 39 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne connaître ni des lèvres ni des dents” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne connaître ni des lèvres ni des dents is 39 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə kɔ.nɛtʁ ni de lɛvʁ ni de dɑ̃\. 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 connaître du tout.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne connaître ni des lèvres ni des dents 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 ne connaître ni des lèvres ni des dents, spelled N-E- -C-O-N-N-A-Î-T-R-E- -N-I- -D-E-S- -L-È-V-R-E-S- -N-I- -D-E-S- -D-E-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne pas se connaître du tout.
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 “ne connaître ni des lèvres ni des dents”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -C-O-N-N-A-Î-T-R-E- -N-I- -D-E-S- -L-È-V-R-E-S- -N-I- -D-E-S- -D-E-N-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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