prendre à cœur
\pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿a kœʁ\
The verdict
“prendre à cœur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’affecter d’une chose, y être vivement sensible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prendre-a-c-ur · prendre à cœur · French
prendre à cœur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | prendre à cœur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿a kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prendre à cœur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prendre à cœur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿a kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "S’affecter d’une chose, y être vivement sensible.".
prendre à cœur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prendre à cœur, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -À- -C-Œ-U-R.
Definition
- 1S’affecter d’une chose, y être vivement sensible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prendre à cœur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et c'est bien normal qu'il prenne à cœur tes études, surtout si tu foxes tes cours spéciaux deux fois sur trois. Ça va donner quoi à la fin de l'année ?
Nos académiciens prennent très à cœur leur mission, source de nombreux plaisirs.
This word in other languages
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.