taper sur les nerfs
\ta.pe syʁ le nɛʁ\
The verdict
“taper sur les nerfs” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agacer ou exaspérer au plus haut point.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taper-sur-les-nerfs · taper sur les nerfs · French
taper sur les nerfs · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | taper sur les nerfs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.pe syʁ le nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taper sur les nerfs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taper sur les nerfs is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ta.pe syʁ le nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Agacer ou exaspérer au plus haut point.".
taper sur les nerfs has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is taper sur les nerfs, spelled T-A-P-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -N-E-R-F-S.
Definition
- 1Agacer ou exaspérer au plus haut point.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taper sur les nerfs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je dois faire un aveu : Stéphane Hessel, l’onctueux pape du bien-pensisme, me tape sur les nerfs.
Cette manie de s’auto-certifier tape sur les nerfs des défenseurs du droit à la vie privée et met un coup d’arrêt au transfert et au stockage des données de citoyens protégés par le RGPD sur le sol américain.
This word in other languages
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.