chat échaudé craint l’eau froide
The verdict
“chat échaudé craint l’eau froide” 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
- 32
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: D’une mésaventure naît un excès de prudence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chat échaudé craint l’eau froide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ʃa e.ʃo.de kʁɛ̃ l‿o fʁwad\ |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chat échaudé craint l’eau froide” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chat échaudé craint l’eau froide is 32 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa e.ʃo.de kʁɛ̃ l‿o fʁwad\. 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: "D’une mésaventure naît un excès de prudence.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chat échaudé craint l’eau froide 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 chat échaudé craint l’eau froide, spelled C-H-A-T- -É-C-H-A-U-D-É- -C-R-A-I-N-T- -L-’-E-A-U- -F-R-O-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1D’une mésaventure naît un excès de prudence.
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Using “chat échaudé craint l’eau froide”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-T- -É-C-H-A-U-D-É- -C-R-A-I-N-T- -L-’-E-A-U- -F-R-O-I-D-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃa e.ʃo.de kʁɛ̃ l‿o fʁwad\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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