se croire le centre du monde
\sə kʁwaʁ lə sɑ̃tʁ dy mɔ̃d\
The verdict
“se croire le centre du monde” 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
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avoir une haute opinion de soi-même, se donner des airs d’importance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se croire le centre du monde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə kʁwaʁ lə sɑ̃tʁ dy mɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “se croire le centre du monde” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se croire le centre du monde is 28 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə kʁwaʁ lə sɑ̃tʁ dy mɔ̃d\. 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: "Avoir une haute opinion de soi-même, se donner des airs d’importance.".
No misspelling variants are generated for se croire le centre du monde 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 se croire le centre du monde, spelled S-E- -C-R-O-I-R-E- -L-E- -C-E-N-T-R-E- -D-U- -M-O-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Avoir une haute opinion de soi-même, se donner des airs d’importance.
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- -C-R-O-I-R-E- -L-E- -C-E-N-T-R-E- -D-U- -M-O-N-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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