s’en battre la paupière avec une petite patte d’anguille

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The French entry for s’en battre la paupière avec une petite patte d’anguille is 56 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \s‿ɑ̃ batʁ la pɔ.pjɛ.ʁ‿a.vɛ.k‿yn pə.tit pat d‿ɑ̃.ɡij\. 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: "(Familier) Se moquer de quelque chose, n’en avoir rien à faire.".

Zero misspellings are on record for s’en battre la paupière avec une petite patte d’anguille 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is s’en battre la paupière avec une petite patte d’anguille, spelled S-’-E-N- -B-A-T-T-R-E- -L-A- -P-A-U-P-I-È-R-E- -A-V-E-C- -U-N-E- -P-E-T-I-T-E- -P-A-T-T-E- -D-’-A-N-G-U-I-L-L-E.