s’en battre l’œil
\s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə l‿œj\
The verdict
“s’en battre l’œil” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se moquer de quelque chose, n’en avoir que faire, s'en ficher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-en-battre-l-il · s’en battre l’œil · French
s’en battre l’œil · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | s’en battre l’œil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə l‿œj\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « s’en battre l’œil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
s’en battre l’œil is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə l‿œj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se moquer de quelque chose, n’en avoir que faire, s'en ficher.".
Zero misspellings are on record for s’en battre l’œil in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 s’en battre l’œil, spelled S-’-E-N- -B-A-T-T-R-E- -L-’-Œ-I-L.
Definition
- 1Se moquer de quelque chose, n’en avoir que faire, s'en ficher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how s’en battre l’œil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que Condé soit trompé par le duc d’Anjou, je m’en bats l’œil !
"Plainte d’un particulier contre un cocher de fiacre qui l’aurait traité de pourriture !" Je m’en bats l’œil ; est-ce que ça me regarde ?…
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.