ne rien vouloir savoir

/\nə ʁjɛ̃ vu.lwaʁ sa.vwaʁ\/ verb

Letters

22 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

ne rien vouloir savoir is aFrenchverb. It means: Décider d’ignorer quelque chose, refuser de considérer les objections de quelqu’un. Pronounced \nə ʁjɛ̃ vu.lwaʁ sa.vwaʁ\.

Key facts for ne rien vouloir savoir
PropertyValue
Headwordne rien vouloir savoir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\nə ʁjɛ̃ vu.lwaʁ sa.vwaʁ\
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ne rien vouloir savoir is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ne rien vouloir savoir is 22 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə ʁjɛ̃ vu.lwaʁ sa.vwaʁ\. 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: "Décider d’ignorer quelque chose, refuser de considérer les objections de quelqu’un.".

No misspelling variants are generated for ne rien vouloir savoir 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 rien vouloir savoir, spelled N-E- -R-I-E-N- -V-O-U-L-O-I-R- -S-A-V-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Décider d’ignorer quelque chose, refuser de considérer les objections de quelqu’un.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ne rien vouloir savoir"?
"ne rien vouloir savoir" is spelled N-E- -R-I-E-N- -V-O-U-L-O-I-R- -S-A-V-O-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \nə ʁjɛ̃ vu.lwaʁ sa.vwaʁ\.
What does "ne rien vouloir savoir" mean?
As a verb, "ne rien vouloir savoir" means: Décider d’ignorer quelque chose, refuser de considérer les objections de quelqu’un.
How do you pronounce "ne rien vouloir savoir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ne rien vouloir savoir" is \nə ʁjɛ̃ vu.lwaʁ sa.vwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ne rien vouloir savoir" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.