qui se sent morveux se mouche

\ki sə sɑ̃ mɔʁ.vø sə muʃ\

/\ki sə sɑ̃ mɔʁ.vø sə muʃ\/ phrase

The verdict

“qui se sent morveux se mouche” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
29
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Que ceux qui reconnaissent en eux le défaut, le tort dont on parle, s’appliquent ce qu’on en dit, si bon leur semble.

Key facts for qui se sent morveux se mouche
PropertyValue
Headwordqui se sent morveux se mouche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\ki sə sɑ̃ mɔʁ.vø sə muʃ\
Letters29
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “qui se sent morveux se mouche” sits in French frequency

qui se sent morveux se mouche falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for qui se sent morveux se mouche is 29 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki sə sɑ̃ mɔʁ.vø sə muʃ\. 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: "Que ceux qui reconnaissent en eux le défaut, le tort dont on parle, s’appliquent ce qu’on en dit, si bon leur semble.".

No misspelling variants are generated for qui se sent morveux se mouche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is qui se sent morveux se mouche, spelled Q-U-I- -S-E- -S-E-N-T- -M-O-R-V-E-U-X- -S-E- -M-O-U-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Que ceux qui reconnaissent en eux le défaut, le tort dont on parle, s’appliquent ce qu’on en dit, si bon leur semble.

Synonyms

si le chapeau te fait, mets-lequi se sent galeux, qu'il se gratte

This word in other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "qui se sent morveux se mouche"?
"qui se sent morveux se mouche" is spelled Q-U-I- -S-E- -S-E-N-T- -M-O-R-V-E-U-X- -S-E- -M-O-U-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ki sə sɑ̃ mɔʁ.vø sə muʃ\.
What does "qui se sent morveux se mouche" mean?
As a phrase, "qui se sent morveux se mouche" means: Que ceux qui reconnaissent en eux le défaut, le tort dont on parle, s’appliquent ce qu’on en dit, si bon leur semble.
How do you pronounce "qui se sent morveux se mouche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "qui se sent morveux se mouche" is \ki sə sɑ̃ mɔʁ.vø sə muʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “qui se sent morveux se mouche”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is Q-U-I- -S-E- -S-E-N-T- -M-O-R-V-E-U-X- -S-E- -M-O-U-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ki sə sɑ̃ mɔʁ.vø sə muʃ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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