sans peine
\sɑ̃ pɛn\
The verdict
“sans peine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sans difficulté, sans obstacle, sans effort.
| 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) |
Where “sans peine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sans peine is 10 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃ pɛn\. 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: "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.
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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.
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Using “sans peine”
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-N-S- -P-E-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.