se payer la poire
\sə pɛ.je la pwaʁ\
The verdict
“se payer la poire” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se moquer de.
| 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) |
Where “se payer la poire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se payer la poire is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə pɛ.je la pwaʁ\. 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 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.
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 payer la poire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E- -P-A-Y-E-R- -L-A- -P-O-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sə pɛ.je la pwaʁ\ (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.