ne plus pouvoir passer sous l’Arc de Triomphe
\nə ply pu.vwaʁ pa.se su l‿aʁk də tʁi.ɔ̃f\
The verdict
“ne plus pouvoir passer sous l’Arc de Triomphe” 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
- 45
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se prendre pour quelqu’un d’exceptionnel ; être imbu de soi-même ; être prétentieux, avoir la grosse tête.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne plus pouvoir passer sous l’Arc de Triomphe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə ply pu.vwaʁ pa.se su l‿aʁk də tʁi.ɔ̃f\ |
| Letters | 45 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne plus pouvoir passer sous l’Arc de Triomphe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne plus pouvoir passer sous l’Arc de Triomphe is 45 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə ply pu.vwaʁ pa.se su l‿aʁk də tʁi.ɔ̃f\. 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: "Se prendre pour quelqu’un d’exceptionnel ; être imbu de soi-même ; être prétentieux, avoir la grosse tête.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne plus pouvoir passer sous l’Arc de Triomphe 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 plus pouvoir passer sous l’Arc de Triomphe, spelled N-E- -P-L-U-S- -P-O-U-V-O-I-R- -P-A-S-S-E-R- -S-O-U-S- -L-’-A-R-C- -D-E- -T-R-I-O-M-P-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se prendre pour quelqu’un d’exceptionnel ; être imbu de soi-même ; être prétentieux, avoir la grosse tête.
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-L-U-S- -P-O-U-V-O-I-R- -P-A-S-S-E-R- -S-O-U-S- -L-’-A-R-C- -D-E- -T-R-I-O-M-P-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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