par-dessus les oreilles
\paʁ də.sy le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\
The verdict
“par-dessus les oreilles” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plus qu’on ne peut endurer, supporter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | par-dessus les oreilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \paʁ də.sy le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “par-dessus les oreilles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for par-dessus les oreilles is 23 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ də.sy le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for par-dessus les oreilles 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 par-dessus les oreilles, spelled P-A-R---D-E-S-S-U-S- -L-E-S- -O-R-E-I-L-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plus qu’on ne peut endurer, supporter.
- 2De manière accablante, de façon à être débordé, trop.
- 3Marre, assez.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-R---D-E-S-S-U-S- -L-E-S- -O-R-E-I-L-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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