celui louer devons, de qui le pain mangeons
The verdict
“celui louer devons, de qui le pain mangeons” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proverb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 43
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Celui qui reçoit un avantage a tendance à chanter les louanges de son donateur ; il faut se méfier des conflits d’intérêts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | celui louer devons, de qui le pain mangeons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | \sə.lɥi lwe də.vɔ̃ də ki lə pɛ̃ mɑ̃.ʒɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 43 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “celui louer devons, de qui le pain mangeons” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for celui louer devons, de qui le pain mangeons is 43 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.lɥi lwe də.vɔ̃ də ki lə pɛ̃ mɑ̃.ʒɔ̃\. 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: "Celui qui reçoit un avantage a tendance à chanter les louanges de son donateur ; il faut se méfier des conflits d’intérêts.".
No misspelling variants are generated for celui louer devons, de qui le pain mangeons 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 celui louer devons, de qui le pain mangeons, spelled C-E-L-U-I- -L-O-U-E-R- -D-E-V-O-N-S-,- -D-E- -Q-U-I- -L-E- -P-A-I-N- -M-A-N-G-E-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui reçoit un avantage a tendance à chanter les louanges de son donateur ; il faut se méfier des conflits d’intérêts.
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Using “celui louer devons, de qui le pain mangeons”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-E-L-U-I- -L-O-U-E-R- -D-E-V-O-N-S-,- -D-E- -Q-U-I- -L-E- -P-A-I-N- -M-A-N-G-E-O-N-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sə.lɥi lwe də.vɔ̃ də ki lə pɛ̃ mɑ̃.ʒɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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