fortune favors the bold
The verdict
“fortune favors the bold” 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
- 23
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: La fortune sourit aux audacieux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fortune favors the bold |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ˈfɔɹ.tʃən ˌfeɪ.vɚz ðə ˈboʊld\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fortune favors the bold” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fortune favors the bold is 23 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈfɔɹ.tʃən ˌfeɪ.vɚz ðə ˈboʊld\. 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: "La fortune sourit aux audacieux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fortune favors the bold 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 fortune favors the bold, spelled F-O-R-T-U-N-E- -F-A-V-O-R-S- -T-H-E- -B-O-L-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1La fortune sourit aux audacieux.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-O-R-T-U-N-E- -F-A-V-O-R-S- -T-H-E- -B-O-L-D — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈfɔɹ.tʃən ˌfeɪ.vɚz ðə ˈboʊld\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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