a broken clock is right twice a day
Letters
35 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
a broken clock is right twice a day is aFrenchproverb. It means: Même une horloge arrêtée donne l’heure juste deux fois par jour; une personne ou un instrument normalement peu fiable peut occasionnellement fournir des informations correctes, même si ce n’est que... Pronounced \ə ˈbɹoʊ.kɪn klɔk ɪz ˈɹaɪt twaɪs ə deɪ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | a broken clock is right twice a day |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | \ə ˈbɹoʊ.kɪn klɔk ɪz ˈɹaɪt twaɪs ə deɪ\ |
| Letters | 35 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for a broken clock is right twice a day is 35 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ə ˈbɹoʊ.kɪn klɔk ɪz ˈɹaɪt twaɪs ə deɪ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for a broken clock is right twice a day 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 a broken clock is right twice a day, spelled A- -B-R-O-K-E-N- -C-L-O-C-K- -I-S- -R-I-G-H-T- -T-W-I-C-E- -A- -D-A-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Même une horloge arrêtée donne l’heure juste deux fois par jour; une personne ou un instrument normalement peu fiable peut occasionnellement fournir des informations correctes, même si ce n’est que par accident.
- 2Quelqu’un qui répète constamment la même chose aura raison à un moment donné, même si ce n’est que brièvement.
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