s’en battre les ovaires
\s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə le.z‿ɔ.vɛʁ\
The verdict
“s’en battre les ovaires” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se désintéresser ou être totalement indifférent de la chose ou personne en question (généralement à propos d'une femme).
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-en-battre-les-ovaires · s’en battre les ovaires · French
s’en battre les ovaires · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 23 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « s’en battre les ovaires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
s’en battre les ovaires is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə le.z‿ɔ.vɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how s’en battre les ovaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Allez-y, mettez moi des pouces rouges si ça vous chante, je m'en bat les ovaires ça prouvera que j'ai raison.
On a l’impression que les revendications concernant les horaires de travail, c’est chipoter pour pas grand-chose et qu’on s’en bat les ovaires de commencer à telle heure ou telle autre.
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.