c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire
\sɛ lə mwɛ̃ k‿ɔ̃ pɥis diʁ\
The verdict
“c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 32
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Indication que ce qui vient d’être dit est un euphémisme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sɛ lə mwɛ̃ k‿ɔ̃ pɥis diʁ\ |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \sɛ lə mwɛ̃ k‿ɔ̃ pɥis diʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Indication que ce qui vient d’être dit est un euphémisme.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire, spelled C-’-E-S-T- -L-E- -M-O-I-N-S- -Q-U-’-O-N- -P-U-I-S-S-E- -D-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Indication que ce qui vient d’être dit est un euphémisme.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-’-E-S-T- -L-E- -M-O-I-N-S- -Q-U-’-O-N- -P-U-I-S-S-E- -D-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.