de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum
\de gus.ti.bu.s‿et ko.lo.ʁi.bus no.n‿est dis.pu.tan.dum\
The verdict
“de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum” 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
- 44
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Les goûts sont subjectifs ; des goûts et des couleurs, on ne discute pas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \de gus.ti.bu.s‿et ko.lo.ʁi.bus no.n‿est dis.pu.tan.dum\ |
| Letters | 44 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum is 44 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de gus.ti.bu.s‿et ko.lo.ʁi.bus no.n‿est dis.pu.tan.dum\. 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: "Les goûts sont subjectifs ; des goûts et des couleurs, on ne discute pas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum 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 de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum, spelled D-E- -G-U-S-T-I-B-U-S- -E-T- -C-O-L-O-R-I-B-U-S- -N-O-N- -E-S-T- -D-I-S-P-U-T-A-N-D-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Les goûts sont subjectifs ; des goûts et des couleurs, on ne discute pas.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -G-U-S-T-I-B-U-S- -E-T- -C-O-L-O-R-I-B-U-S- -N-O-N- -E-S-T- -D-I-S-P-U-T-A-N-D-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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