c’est celui qui dit qui l’est
\s‿ɛ sə.lɥi ki di ki l‿ɛ\
The verdict
“c’est celui qui dit qui l’est” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - L’insulte que tu m’as adressée s’applique à toi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | c’est celui qui dit qui l’est |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \s‿ɛ sə.lɥi ki di ki l‿ɛ\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “c’est celui qui dit qui l’est” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for c’est celui qui dit qui l’est is 29 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \s‿ɛ sə.lɥi ki di ki l‿ɛ\. 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: "L’insulte que tu m’as adressée s’applique à toi.".
No misspelling variants are generated for c’est celui qui dit qui l’est 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 c’est celui qui dit qui l’est, spelled C-’-E-S-T- -C-E-L-U-I- -Q-U-I- -D-I-T- -Q-U-I- -L-’-E-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1L’insulte que tu m’as adressée s’applique à toi.
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Using “c’est celui qui dit qui l’est”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-’-E-S-T- -C-E-L-U-I- -Q-U-I- -D-I-T- -Q-U-I- -L-’-E-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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