se mettre le doigt dans l’œil
\sə mɛtʁ lə dwa dɑ̃ l‿œj\
The verdict
“se mettre 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
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - S’illusionner, se tromper complètement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se mettre le doigt dans l’œil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə mɛtʁ lə dwa dɑ̃ l‿œj\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “se mettre le doigt dans l’œil” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se mettre le doigt dans l’œil is 29 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə mɛtʁ 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: "S’illusionner, se tromper complètement.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for se mettre le doigt dans l’œil, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 mettre le doigt dans l’œil, spelled S-E- -M-E-T-T-R-E- -L-E- -D-O-I-G-T- -D-A-N-S- -L-’-Œ-I-L.
Definition
- 1S’illusionner, se tromper complètement.
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 mettre le doigt dans l’œil”
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- The one correct French spelling is S-E- -M-E-T-T-R-E- -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 mɛtʁ 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.