se faire un sang d’encre
\sə fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ sɑ̃ d‿ɑ̃.kʁ(ə)\
The verdict
“se faire un sang d’encre” 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
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être extrêmement préoccupé ; être inquiet au plus haut point.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se faire un sang d’encre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ sɑ̃ d‿ɑ̃.kʁ(ə)\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “se faire un sang d’encre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se faire un sang d’encre is 24 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ sɑ̃ d‿ɑ̃.kʁ(ə)\. 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: "Être extrêmement préoccupé ; être inquiet au plus haut point.".
se faire un sang d’encre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is se faire un sang d’encre, spelled S-E- -F-A-I-R-E- -U-N- -S-A-N-G- -D-’-E-N-C-R-E.
Definition
- 1Être extrêmement préoccupé ; être inquiet au plus haut point.
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 “se faire un sang d’encre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E- -F-A-I-R-E- -U-N- -S-A-N-G- -D-’-E-N-C-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sə fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ sɑ̃ d‿ɑ̃.kʁ(ə)\ (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.