ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez
The verdict
“ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez” 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
- 44
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Avoir peu de clairvoyance, peu de perspicacité, peu de prévoyance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə pa vwaʁ ply lwɛ̃ kə lə bu də sɔ̃ ne\ |
| Letters | 44 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez is 44 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pa vwaʁ ply lwɛ̃ kə lə bu də sɔ̃ ne\. 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: "Avoir peu de clairvoyance, peu de perspicacité, peu de prévoyance.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez 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 voir plus loin que le bout de son nez, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -V-O-I-R- -P-L-U-S- -L-O-I-N- -Q-U-E- -L-E- -B-O-U-T- -D-E- -S-O-N- -N-E-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Avoir peu de clairvoyance, peu de perspicacité, peu de prévoyance.
This word in other languages
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-A-S- -V-O-I-R- -P-L-U-S- -L-O-I-N- -Q-U-E- -L-E- -B-O-U-T- -D-E- -S-O-N- -N-E-Z — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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