taper sur les nerfs

/\ta.pe syʁ le nɛʁ\/ verb

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

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taper sur les nerfs is aFrenchverb. It means: Agacer ou exaspérer au plus haut point. Pronounced \ta.pe syʁ le nɛʁ\.

Key facts for taper sur les nerfs
PropertyValue
Headwordtaper sur les nerfs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ta.pe syʁ le nɛʁ\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

taper sur les nerfs is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for taper sur les nerfs is 19 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ta.pe syʁ le nɛʁ\. 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: "Agacer ou exaspérer au plus haut point.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for taper sur les nerfs in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: 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, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Agacer ou exaspérer au plus haut point.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "taper sur les nerfs"?
"taper sur les nerfs" is spelled T-A-P-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -N-E-R-F-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ta.pe syʁ le nɛʁ\.
What does "taper sur les nerfs" mean?
As a verb, "taper sur les nerfs" means: Agacer ou exaspérer au plus haut point.
How do you pronounce "taper sur les nerfs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "taper sur les nerfs" is \ta.pe syʁ le nɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "taper sur les nerfs" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.