se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil jusqu’au coude
\sə fu.ʁe lə dwa dɑ̃ l‿œj ʒys.k‿o kud\
The verdict
“se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil jusqu’au coude” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 45
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se tromper grossièrement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-fourrer-le-doigt-dans · se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil jusqu’au coude · French
se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil jusqu’au coude · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 45 letters
- VOW-17 17 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 jusqu’au coude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə fu.ʁe lə dwa dɑ̃ l‿œj ʒys.k‿o kud\ |
| Letters | 45 |
| 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 jusqu’au coude is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə fu.ʁe lə dwa dɑ̃ l‿œj ʒys.k‿o kud\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se tromper grossièrement.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil jusqu’au coude, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is se fourrer le doigt dans l’œil jusqu’au coude, 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- -J-U-S-Q-U-’-A-U- -C-O-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Se tromper grossièrement.
Synonyms
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.