sans peine
\sɑ̃ pɛn\
The verdict
“sans peine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sans difficulté, sans obstacle, sans effort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sans-peine · sans peine · French
sans peine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | sans peine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃ pɛn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sans peine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \sɑ̃ pɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sans difficulté, sans obstacle, sans effort.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sans peine, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sans peine, spelled S-A-N-S- -P-E-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Sans difficulté, sans obstacle, sans effort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sans peine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C´est ta destiné, pourquoi vouloir lui résister ? Sans peine je ferais sauter les verrous de ta volonté. Sois l’hôte dans la noirceur la plus pure de l’Empereur.
Si prompt qu’il eût été, ce mouvement n’avait cependant pas échappé à Hilda qui sourit avec un peu d’amertume et hocha approbativement la tête ; dans son regard, clair et droit, Serge Brunof lut sans peine la vérité.
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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.