c’est en forgeant que l’on devient forgeron
[se.tɑ̃.fɔʁ.ʒɑ̃.kə.lɔ̃.də.vjɛ̃.fɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃]
The verdict
“c’est en forgeant que l’on devient forgeron” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 43
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Übung macht den Meister
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | c’est en forgeant que l’on devient forgeron |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [se.tɑ̃.fɔʁ.ʒɑ̃.kə.lɔ̃.də.vjɛ̃.fɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃] |
| Letters | 43 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “c’est en forgeant que l’on devient forgeron” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for c’est en forgeant que l’on devient forgeron is 43 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [se.tɑ̃.fɔʁ.ʒɑ̃.kə.lɔ̃.də.vjɛ̃.fɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃]. 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: "Übung macht den Meister".
No misspelling variants are generated for c’est en forgeant que l’on devient forgeron in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 German form is c’est en forgeant que l’on devient forgeron, spelled C-’-E-S-T- -E-N- -F-O-R-G-E-A-N-T- -Q-U-E- -L-’-O-N- -D-E-V-I-E-N-T- -F-O-R-G-E-R-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Übung macht den Meister
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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- The one correct German spelling is C-’-E-S-T- -E-N- -F-O-R-G-E-A-N-T- -Q-U-E- -L-’-O-N- -D-E-V-I-E-N-T- -F-O-R-G-E-R-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [se.tɑ̃.fɔʁ.ʒɑ̃.kə.lɔ̃.də.vjɛ̃.fɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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