peine de cœur
\pɛn də kœʁ\
The verdict
“peine de cœur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Chagrin d’amour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peine-de-c-ur · peine de cœur · French
peine de cœur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peine de cœur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛn də kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peine de cœur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
peine de cœur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛn də kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chagrin d’amour.".
peine de cœur has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is peine de cœur, spelled P-E-I-N-E- -D-E- -C-Œ-U-R.
Definition
- 1Chagrin d’amour.
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