ça va sans dire

/\sa va sɑ̃ diʁ\/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ça va sans dire is aFrenchphrase. It means: C’est évident, pas besoin de le dire. Pronounced \sa va sɑ̃ diʁ\.

Key facts for ça va sans dire
PropertyValue
Headwordça va sans dire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\sa va sɑ̃ diʁ\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ça va sans dire is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ça va sans dire is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa va sɑ̃ diʁ\. 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: "C’est évident, pas besoin de le dire.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ça va sans dire 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 ça va sans dire, spelled Ç-A- -V-A- -S-A-N-S- -D-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    C’est évident, pas besoin de le dire.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ça va sans dire"?
"ça va sans dire" is spelled Ç-A- -V-A- -S-A-N-S- -D-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa va sɑ̃ diʁ\.
What does "ça va sans dire" mean?
As a phrase, "ça va sans dire" means: C’est évident, pas besoin de le dire.
How do you pronounce "ça va sans dire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ça va sans dire" is \sa va sɑ̃ diʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ça va sans dire" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.