ce n’est pas la mort du petit cheval
\sə n‿ɛ pa la mɔʁ dy pə.ti ʃə.val\
The verdict
“ce n’est pas la mort du petit cheval” 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
- 36
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ce n’est pas bien important, ce n’est pas très grave.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ce n’est pas la mort du petit cheval |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \sə n‿ɛ pa la mɔʁ dy pə.ti ʃə.val\ |
| Letters | 36 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ce n’est pas la mort du petit cheval” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ce n’est pas la mort du petit cheval is 36 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə n‿ɛ pa la mɔʁ dy pə.ti ʃə.val\. 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: "Ce n’est pas bien important, ce n’est pas très grave.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ce n’est pas la mort du petit cheval 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 ce n’est pas la mort du petit cheval, spelled C-E- -N-’-E-S-T- -P-A-S- -L-A- -M-O-R-T- -D-U- -P-E-T-I-T- -C-H-E-V-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce n’est pas bien important, ce n’est pas très grave.
Antonyms
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-E- -N-’-E-S-T- -P-A-S- -L-A- -M-O-R-T- -D-U- -P-E-T-I-T- -C-H-E-V-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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