taper sur les nerfs
\ta.pe syʁ le nɛʁ\
The verdict
“taper sur les nerfs” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Agacer ou exaspérer au plus haut point.
| 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) |
Where “taper sur les nerfs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for taper sur les nerfs is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, 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.".
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.
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.
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Using “taper sur les nerfs”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-A-P-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -N-E-R-F-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ta.pe syʁ le nɛʁ\ (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.