a dumb priest never got a parish

/\ə dʌm pɻiːst ˈnɛv.əɹ ˈɡɒt ə ˈpæɹ.ɪʃ\/ phrase

Letters

32 characters

Language

French

word origin

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a dumb priest never got a parish is aFrenchphrase. It means: Qui ne tente rien n’a rien. Pronounced \ə dʌm pɻiːst ˈnɛv.əɹ ˈɡɒt ə ˈpæɹ.ɪʃ\.

Key facts for a dumb priest never got a parish
PropertyValue
Headworda dumb priest never got a parish
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\ə dʌm pɻiːst ˈnɛv.əɹ ˈɡɒt ə ˈpæɹ.ɪʃ\
Letters32
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

a dumb priest never got a parish 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 a dumb priest never got a parish is 32 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ə dʌm pɻiːst ˈnɛv.əɹ ˈɡɒt ə ˈpæɹ.ɪʃ\. 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: "Qui ne tente rien n’a rien.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for a dumb priest never got a parish 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 dumb priest never got a parish, spelled A- -D-U-M-B- -P-R-I-E-S-T- -N-E-V-E-R- -G-O-T- -A- -P-A-R-I-S-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui ne tente rien n’a rien.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "a dumb priest never got a parish"?
"a dumb priest never got a parish" is spelled A- -D-U-M-B- -P-R-I-E-S-T- -N-E-V-E-R- -G-O-T- -A- -P-A-R-I-S-H. The IPA pronunciation is \ə dʌm pɻiːst ˈnɛv.əɹ ˈɡɒt ə ˈpæɹ.ɪʃ\.
What does "a dumb priest never got a parish" mean?
As a phrase, "a dumb priest never got a parish" means: Qui ne tente rien n’a rien.
How do you pronounce "a dumb priest never got a parish"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "a dumb priest never got a parish" is \ə dʌm pɻiːst ˈnɛv.əɹ ˈɡɒt ə ˈpæɹ.ɪʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.