il n’y a qu’un cheveu sur la tête à Mathieu
\il n‿j‿a k‿œ̃ ʃə.vø syʁ la tɛ.t‿a ma.tjø\
The verdict
“il n’y a qu’un cheveu sur la tête à Mathieu” 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
- 43
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Titre de chanson.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | il n’y a qu’un cheveu sur la tête à Mathieu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \il n‿j‿a k‿œ̃ ʃə.vø syʁ la tɛ.t‿a ma.tjø\ |
| Letters | 43 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “il n’y a qu’un cheveu sur la tête à Mathieu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for il n’y a qu’un cheveu sur la tête à Mathieu is 43 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \il n‿j‿a k‿œ̃ ʃə.vø syʁ la tɛ.t‿a ma.tjø\. 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: "Titre de chanson.".
No misspelling variants are generated for il n’y a qu’un cheveu sur la tête à Mathieu 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 qu’un cheveu sur la tête à Mathieu, spelled I-L- -N-’-Y- -A- -Q-U-’-U-N- -C-H-E-V-E-U- -S-U-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -À- -M-A-T-H-I-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Titre de chanson.
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- The one correct French spelling is I-L- -N-’-Y- -A- -Q-U-’-U-N- -C-H-E-V-E-U- -S-U-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -À- -M-A-T-H-I-E-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \il n‿j‿a k‿œ̃ ʃə.vø syʁ la tɛ.t‿a ma.tjø\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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