cane ch’abbaia, poco morde
\ˈkaŋ k‿ab.ˈba.ja ˈpɔ.ko ˈmɔr.de\
The verdict
“cane ch’abbaia, poco morde” 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
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Chien qui aboie ne mord pas, se dit de quelqu’un qui fait beaucoup de menaces sans les mettre à exécution.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cane ch’abbaia, poco morde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ˈkaŋ k‿ab.ˈba.ja ˈpɔ.ko ˈmɔr.de\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cane ch’abbaia, poco morde” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cane ch’abbaia, poco morde is 26 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈkaŋ k‿ab.ˈba.ja ˈpɔ.ko ˈmɔr.de\. 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: "Chien qui aboie ne mord pas, se dit de quelqu’un qui fait beaucoup de menaces sans les mettre à exécution.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cane ch’abbaia, poco morde 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 cane ch’abbaia, poco morde, spelled C-A-N-E- -C-H-’-A-B-B-A-I-A-,- -P-O-C-O- -M-O-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chien qui aboie ne mord pas, se dit de quelqu’un qui fait beaucoup de menaces sans les mettre à exécution.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-E- -C-H-’-A-B-B-A-I-A-,- -P-O-C-O- -M-O-R-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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