peine-à-jouir
\pɛ.n‿a.ʒwiʁ\
The verdict
“peine-à-jouir” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne qui a du mal à atteindre un orgasme ou à éprouver du plaisir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peine-à-jouir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.n‿a.ʒwiʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peine-à-jouir” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for peine-à-jouir is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ.n‿a.ʒwiʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
peine-à-jouir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is peine-à-jouir, spelled P-E-I-N-E---À---J-O-U-I-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui a du mal à atteindre un orgasme ou à éprouver du plaisir.
- 2Personne ennuyeuse par son refus à éprouver du plaisir.
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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Using “peine-à-jouir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-I-N-E---À---J-O-U-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɛ.n‿a.ʒwiʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.