ne plus savoir où se mettre
\nə ply sa.vwa.ʁ‿u sə mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“ne plus savoir où se mettre” 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
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Éprouver un fort sentiment de gêne, d’embarras ou de honte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne plus savoir où se mettre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə ply sa.vwa.ʁ‿u sə mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne plus savoir où se mettre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne plus savoir où se mettre is 27 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə ply sa.vwa.ʁ‿u sə mɛtʁ\. 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: "Éprouver un fort sentiment de gêne, d’embarras ou de honte.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne plus savoir où se mettre 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 savoir où se mettre, spelled N-E- -P-L-U-S- -S-A-V-O-I-R- -O-Ù- -S-E- -M-E-T-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Éprouver un fort sentiment de gêne, d’embarras ou de honte.
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- -S-A-V-O-I-R- -O-Ù- -S-E- -M-E-T-T-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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