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 uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 30
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se tromper grossièrement, se bercer d’illusions.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-fourrer-le-doigt-dans · se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil · French
se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 30 letters
- VOW-10 10 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 | 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə fu.ʁe lə dwa dɑ̃ l‿œj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Si vous vous imaginez que je suis un type qui se laissera étriller sans rien dire, comme vos conscrits, vous vous fourrez joliment le doigt dans l’œil, messeigneurs…
Depuis quelques années, j’avais l’illusion que ça n’était plus nécessaire, et manifestement je me fourrais le doigt dans l’œil. On vit dans une oasis, mais le monde alentour est moche.
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.