pour les beaux yeux
\puʁ lɛ bo.z‿jø\
The verdict
“pour les beaux yeux” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Uniquement pour celui ou celle dont on parle, sans autre raison que le désir de lui faire plaisir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pour les beaux yeux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \puʁ lɛ bo.z‿jø\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pour les beaux yeux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pour les beaux yeux is 19 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \puʁ lɛ bo.z‿jø\. 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.
pour les beaux yeux has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pour les beaux yeux, spelled P-O-U-R- -L-E-S- -B-E-A-U-X- -Y-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Uniquement pour celui ou celle dont on parle, sans autre raison que le désir de lui faire plaisir.
- 2Gratuitement.
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 “pour les beaux yeux”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-R- -L-E-S- -B-E-A-U-X- -Y-E-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \puʁ lɛ bo.z‿jø\ (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.