il faut savoir raison garder
\il fo sa.vwaʁ ʁɛ.zɔ̃ ɡaʁ.de\
The verdict
“il faut savoir raison garder” 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
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Il faut savoir ne pas exagérer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | il faut savoir raison garder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \il fo sa.vwaʁ ʁɛ.zɔ̃ ɡaʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “il faut savoir raison garder” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for il faut savoir raison garder is 28 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \il fo sa.vwaʁ ʁɛ.zɔ̃ ɡaʁ.de\. 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: "Il faut savoir ne pas exagérer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for il faut savoir raison garder 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 il faut savoir raison garder, spelled I-L- -F-A-U-T- -S-A-V-O-I-R- -R-A-I-S-O-N- -G-A-R-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Il faut savoir ne pas exagérer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is I-L- -F-A-U-T- -S-A-V-O-I-R- -R-A-I-S-O-N- -G-A-R-D-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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