il faut savoir viser suffisamment haut pour ne pas tomber trop bas
\il fo sa.vwaʁ vi.ze sy.fi.za.mɑ̃ o puʁ nə pa tɔ̃.be tʁo ba\
The verdict
“il faut savoir viser suffisamment haut pour ne pas tomber trop bas” 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
- 66
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Il faut avoir de l’ambition sous peine de régresser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | il faut savoir viser suffisamment haut pour ne pas tomber trop bas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \il fo sa.vwaʁ vi.ze sy.fi.za.mɑ̃ o puʁ nə pa tɔ̃.be tʁo ba\ |
| Letters | 66 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “il faut savoir viser suffisamment haut pour ne pas tomber trop bas” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for il faut savoir viser suffisamment haut pour ne pas tomber trop bas is 66 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \il fo sa.vwaʁ vi.ze sy.fi.za.mɑ̃ o puʁ nə pa tɔ̃.be tʁo ba\. 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 avoir de l’ambition sous peine de régresser.".
No misspelling variants are generated for il faut savoir viser suffisamment haut pour ne pas tomber trop bas 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 viser suffisamment haut pour ne pas tomber trop bas, spelled I-L- -F-A-U-T- -S-A-V-O-I-R- -V-I-S-E-R- -S-U-F-F-I-S-A-M-M-E-N-T- -H-A-U-T- -P-O-U-R- -N-E- -P-A-S- -T-O-M-B-E-R- -T-R-O-P- -B-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Il faut avoir de l’ambition sous peine de régresser.
Antonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is I-L- -F-A-U-T- -S-A-V-O-I-R- -V-I-S-E-R- -S-U-F-F-I-S-A-M-M-E-N-T- -H-A-U-T- -P-O-U-R- -N-E- -P-A-S- -T-O-M-B-E-R- -T-R-O-P- -B-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \il fo sa.vwaʁ vi.ze sy.fi.za.mɑ̃ o puʁ nə pa tɔ̃.be tʁo ba\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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