il n’y a pas de montagnes sans vallée
\il.n‿j‿a pa də mɔ̃.taɲ sɑ̃ va.le\
The verdict
“il n’y a pas de montagnes sans vallée” 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
- 37
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Chaque chose existe avec son contraire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | il n’y a pas de montagnes sans vallée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \il.n‿j‿a pa də mɔ̃.taɲ sɑ̃ va.le\ |
| Letters | 37 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “il n’y a pas de montagnes sans vallée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for il n’y a pas de montagnes sans vallée is 37 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \il.n‿j‿a pa də mɔ̃.taɲ sɑ̃ va.le\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for il n’y a pas de montagnes sans vallée 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 n’y a pas de montagnes sans vallée, spelled I-L- -N-’-Y- -A- -P-A-S- -D-E- -M-O-N-T-A-G-N-E-S- -S-A-N-S- -V-A-L-L-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chaque chose existe avec son contraire.
- 2Il faut toujours considérer les choses sous leurs différents aspects.
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Using “il n’y a pas de montagnes sans vallée”
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- The one correct French spelling is I-L- -N-’-Y- -A- -P-A-S- -D-E- -M-O-N-T-A-G-N-E-S- -S-A-N-S- -V-A-L-L-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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