gagner les cœurs et les esprits
The verdict
“gagner les cœurs et les esprits” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 31
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Obtenir l’adhésion et la confiance d’une population ou d’un public cible par des actions d’information, d’influence et de services, plutôt que par la seule coercition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gagner les cœurs et les esprits |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡa.ɲe le kœʁ e lez‿ɛs.pʁi\ |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gagner les cœurs et les esprits” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gagner les cœurs et les esprits is 31 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.ɲe le kœʁ e lez‿ɛs.pʁi\. 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: "Obtenir l’adhésion et la confiance d’une population ou d’un public cible par des actions d’information, d’influence et de services, plutôt que par la seule coercition.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gagner les cœurs et les esprits 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 gagner les cœurs et les esprits, spelled G-A-G-N-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-Œ-U-R-S- -E-T- -L-E-S- -E-S-P-R-I-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Obtenir l’adhésion et la confiance d’une population ou d’un public cible par des actions d’information, d’influence et de services, plutôt que par la seule coercition.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-G-N-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-Œ-U-R-S- -E-T- -L-E-S- -E-S-P-R-I-T-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡa.ɲe le kœʁ e lez‿ɛs.pʁi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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