s’en ficher comme de sa première chemise
\s‿ɑ̃ fi.ʃe kɔm də sa pʁə.mjɛʁ ʃə.miz\
The verdict
“s’en ficher comme de sa première chemise” 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
- 40
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ne pas attacher d’importance ; prendre avec désinvolture.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | s’en ficher comme de sa première chemise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿ɑ̃ fi.ʃe kɔm də sa pʁə.mjɛʁ ʃə.miz\ |
| Letters | 40 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “s’en ficher comme de sa première chemise” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for s’en ficher comme de sa première chemise is 40 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \s‿ɑ̃ fi.ʃe kɔm də sa pʁə.mjɛʁ ʃə.miz\. 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: "Ne pas attacher d’importance ; prendre avec désinvolture.".
s’en ficher comme de sa première chemise doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is s’en ficher comme de sa première chemise, spelled S-’-E-N- -F-I-C-H-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -S-A- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -C-H-E-M-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Ne pas attacher d’importance ; prendre avec désinvolture.
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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- The one correct French spelling is S-’-E-N- -F-I-C-H-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -S-A- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -C-H-E-M-I-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \s‿ɑ̃ fi.ʃe kɔm də sa pʁə.mjɛʁ ʃə.miz\ (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.