ne pas se moucher avec des pelures d’oignon
\nə pa sə mu.ʃe.ʁ‿a.vɛk de pə.lyʁ d‿ɔ.ɲɔ̃\
The verdict
“ne pas se moucher avec des pelures d’oignon” 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
- 43
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être financièrement à l’aise ; avoir des moyens financiers ; vivre dans la richesse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne pas se moucher avec des pelures d’oignon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə pa sə mu.ʃe.ʁ‿a.vɛk de pə.lyʁ d‿ɔ.ɲɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 43 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne pas se moucher avec des pelures d’oignon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne pas se moucher avec des pelures d’oignon is 43 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pa sə mu.ʃe.ʁ‿a.vɛk de pə.lyʁ d‿ɔ.ɲɔ̃\. 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: "Être financièrement à l’aise ; avoir des moyens financiers ; vivre dans la richesse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne pas se moucher avec des pelures d’oignon 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 se moucher avec des pelures d’oignon, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -S-E- -M-O-U-C-H-E-R- -A-V-E-C- -D-E-S- -P-E-L-U-R-E-S- -D-’-O-I-G-N-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être financièrement à l’aise ; avoir des moyens financiers ; vivre dans la richesse.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-A-S- -S-E- -M-O-U-C-H-E-R- -A-V-E-C- -D-E-S- -P-E-L-U-R-E-S- -D-’-O-I-G-N-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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