tous les chemins mènent à Rome
[tu le ʃ(ə).mɛ̃ mɛ.nɑ̃ a ʁɔm]
The verdict
“tous les chemins mènent à Rome” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 30
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Todos los caminos llevan a Roma, todos los caminos conducen a Roma.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tous les chemins mènent à Rome |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | [tu le ʃ(ə).mɛ̃ mɛ.nɑ̃ a ʁɔm] |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tous les chemins mènent à Rome” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tous les chemins mènent à Rome is 30 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tu le ʃ(ə).mɛ̃ mɛ.nɑ̃ a ʁɔm]. 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: "Todos los caminos llevan a Roma, todos los caminos conducen a Roma.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tous les chemins mènent à Rome in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish 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 Spanish form is tous les chemins mènent à Rome, spelled T-O-U-S- -L-E-S- -C-H-E-M-I-N-S- -M-È-N-E-N-T- -À- -R-O-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Todos los caminos llevan a Roma, todos los caminos conducen a Roma.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-O-U-S- -L-E-S- -C-H-E-M-I-N-S- -M-È-N-E-N-T- -À- -R-O-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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