se payer la poire
\sə pɛ.je la pwaʁ\
The verdict
“se payer la poire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se moquer de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-payer-la-poire · se payer la poire · French
se payer la poire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 payer la poire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə pɛ.je la pwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « se payer la poire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
se payer la poire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə pɛ.je la pwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se moquer de.".
se payer la poire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 payer la poire, spelled S-E- -P-A-Y-E-R- -L-A- -P-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Se moquer de.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how se payer la poire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sinon il est foutre bien évident que cent mille intrigants viendront se payer notre poire et ils prendront en main, nos intérêts, d'une sale façon comme de juste... et nous serons encore obligés de les subir !
Les deux complices se gondolaient en leur for intérieur et se payaient la poire des badauds s'imaginant que c'était arrivé.
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.