c’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait les meilleures confitures
\s‿ɛ dɑ̃ lɛ vjø po k‿ɔ̃ fɛ lɛ mɛ.jœʁ kɔ̃.fi.tyʁ\
The verdict
“c’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait les meilleures confitures” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Synonyme de c’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait la meilleure soupe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | c’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait les meilleures confitures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \s‿ɛ dɑ̃ lɛ vjø po k‿ɔ̃ fɛ lɛ mɛ.jœʁ kɔ̃.fi.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 62 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “c’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait les meilleures confitures” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for c’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait les meilleures confitures is 62 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \s‿ɛ dɑ̃ lɛ vjø po k‿ɔ̃ fɛ lɛ mɛ.jœʁ kɔ̃.fi.tyʁ\. 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: "Synonyme de c’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait la meilleure soupe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for c’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait les meilleures confitures 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 dans les vieux pots qu’on fait les meilleures confitures, spelled C-’-E-S-T- -D-A-N-S- -L-E-S- -V-I-E-U-X- -P-O-T-S- -Q-U-’-O-N- -F-A-I-T- -L-E-S- -M-E-I-L-L-E-U-R-E-S- -C-O-N-F-I-T-U-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de c’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait la meilleure soupe.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-’-E-S-T- -D-A-N-S- -L-E-S- -V-I-E-U-X- -P-O-T-S- -Q-U-’-O-N- -F-A-I-T- -L-E-S- -M-E-I-L-L-E-U-R-E-S- -C-O-N-F-I-T-U-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \s‿ɛ dɑ̃ lɛ vjø po k‿ɔ̃ fɛ lɛ mɛ.jœʁ kɔ̃.fi.tyʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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