ne pas savoir que faire de ses mains
\nə pa sa.vwaʁ kə fɛʁ də se mɛ̃\
The verdict
“ne pas savoir que faire de ses mains” 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
- 36
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de ne pas savoir quoi faire de ses mains.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne pas savoir que faire de ses mains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə pa sa.vwaʁ kə fɛʁ də se mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 36 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne pas savoir que faire de ses mains” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne pas savoir que faire de ses mains is 36 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pa sa.vwaʁ kə fɛʁ də se mɛ̃\. 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: "Variante de ne pas savoir quoi faire de ses mains.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne pas savoir que faire de ses mains 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 pas savoir que faire de ses mains, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -S-A-V-O-I-R- -Q-U-E- -F-A-I-R-E- -D-E- -S-E-S- -M-A-I-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variante de ne pas savoir quoi faire de ses mains.
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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- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-A-S- -S-A-V-O-I-R- -Q-U-E- -F-A-I-R-E- -D-E- -S-E-S- -M-A-I-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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