a dumb priest never got a parish
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | a dumb priest never got a parish |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ə dʌm pɻiːst ˈnɛv.əɹ ˈɡɒt ə ˈpæɹ.ɪʃ\ |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Qui ne tente rien n’a rien.
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