s’en battre les reins
\s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə lɛ ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“s’en battre les reins” 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
- 21
- 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.
| 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) |
Where “s’en battre les reins” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for s’en battre les reins is 21 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə lɛ ʁɛ̃\. 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.".
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.
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 reins”
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- -R-E-I-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \s‿ɑ̃ ba.tʁə lɛ ʁɛ̃\ (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.