sain comme la prunelle de mon œil
\sɛ̃ kɔm la pʁy.nɛl də mɔ̃.n‿œj\
The verdict
“sain comme la prunelle de mon œil” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 33
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Dans un excellent état physique, en bonne santé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sain comme la prunelle de mon œil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛ̃ kɔm la pʁy.nɛl də mɔ̃.n‿œj\ |
| Letters | 33 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sain comme la prunelle de mon œil” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sain comme la prunelle de mon œil is 33 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃ kɔm la pʁy.nɛl də mɔ̃.n‿œj\. 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: "Dans un excellent état physique, en bonne santé.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sain comme la prunelle de mon œil in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sain comme la prunelle de mon œil, spelled S-A-I-N- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-A- -P-R-U-N-E-L-L-E- -D-E- -M-O-N- -Œ-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans un excellent état physique, en bonne santé.
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-A-I-N- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-A- -P-R-U-N-E-L-L-E- -D-E- -M-O-N- -Œ-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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