s’en battre les reins
\s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə lɛ ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“s’en battre les reins” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-en-battre-les-reins · s’en battre les reins · French
s’en battre les reins · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 reins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə lɛ ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « s’en battre les reins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
s’en battre les reins is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə lɛ ʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se désintéresser ou être totalement indifférent de la chose ou personne en question.".
s’en battre les reins has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 reins, spelled S-’-E-N- -B-A-T-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -R-E-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Se désintéresser ou être totalement indifférent de la chose ou personne en question.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how s’en battre les reins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tes 10, tes 20, j’m’en bats les reins
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