se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil
\sə fu.ʁe lə dwa dɑ̃ l‿œj\
The verdict
“se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil” 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
- 30
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se tromper grossièrement, se bercer d’illusions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə fu.ʁe lə dwa dɑ̃ l‿œj\ |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil is 30 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə fu.ʁe lə dwa dɑ̃ l‿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: "Se tromper grossièrement, se bercer d’illusions.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil, spelled S-E- -F-O-U-R-R-E-R- -L-E- -D-O-I-G-T- -D-A-N-S- -L-’-Œ-I-L.
Definition
- 1Se tromper grossièrement, se bercer d’illusions.
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 fourrer le doigt dans l’œil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E- -F-O-U-R-R-E-R- -L-E- -D-O-I-G-T- -D-A-N-S- -L-’-Œ-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sə fu.ʁe lə dwa dɑ̃ l‿œj\ (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.