au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois

/\o ʁwa.jom de.z‿a.vœɡl le bɔʁɲ sɔ̃ ʁwa\/ phrase

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Language

French

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au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois is aFrenchphrase. It means: Avec une aptitude ou un savoir médiocre, on brille au milieu des inaptes ou des ignorants. Pronounced \o ʁwa.jom de.z‿a.vœɡl le bɔʁɲ sɔ̃ ʁwa\.

Key facts for au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois
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Headwordau royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\o ʁwa.jom de.z‿a.vœɡl le bɔʁɲ sɔ̃ ʁwa\
Letters46
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois is 46 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o ʁwa.jom de.z‿a.vœɡl le bɔʁɲ sɔ̃ ʁwa\. 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: "Avec une aptitude ou un savoir médiocre, on brille au milieu des inaptes ou des ignorants.".

No misspelling variants are generated for au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois, spelled A-U- -R-O-Y-A-U-M-E- -D-E-S- -A-V-E-U-G-L-E-S-,- -L-E-S- -B-O-R-G-N-E-S- -S-O-N-T- -R-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Avec une aptitude ou un savoir médiocre, on brille au milieu des inaptes ou des ignorants.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois"?
"au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois" is spelled A-U- -R-O-Y-A-U-M-E- -D-E-S- -A-V-E-U-G-L-E-S-,- -L-E-S- -B-O-R-G-N-E-S- -S-O-N-T- -R-O-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \o ʁwa.jom de.z‿a.vœɡl le bɔʁɲ sɔ̃ ʁwa\.
What does "au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois" mean?
As a phrase, "au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois" means: Avec une aptitude ou un savoir médiocre, on brille au milieu des inaptes ou des ignorants.
How do you pronounce "au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois" is \o ʁwa.jom de.z‿a.vœɡl le bɔʁɲ sɔ̃ ʁwa\. 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.