prendre la peine
\pʁɑ̃dʁ la pɛn\
The verdict
“prendre la peine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire l’effort de ; daigner.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre la peine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃dʁ la pɛn\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prendre la peine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prendre la peine is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃dʁ la pɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Faire l’effort de ; daigner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for prendre la peine in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is prendre la peine, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-A- -P-E-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Faire l’effort de ; daigner.
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 “prendre la peine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-A- -P-E-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.