s’en battre les ovaires
\s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə le.z‿ɔ.vɛʁ\
The verdict
“s’en battre les ovaires” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se désintéresser ou être totalement indifférent de la chose ou personne en question (généralement à propos d'une femme).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | s’en battre les ovaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə le.z‿ɔ.vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “s’en battre les ovaires” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for s’en battre les ovaires is 23 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə le.z‿ɔ.vɛʁ\. 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: "Se désintéresser ou être totalement indifférent de la chose ou personne en question (généralement à propos d'une femme).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for s’en battre les ovaires, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists 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 les ovaires, spelled S-’-E-N- -B-A-T-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -O-V-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Se désintéresser ou être totalement indifférent de la chose ou personne en question (généralement à propos d'une femme).
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 “s’en battre les ovaires”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-’-E-N- -B-A-T-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -O-V-A-I-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə le.z‿ɔ.vɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.