il n’y a que le premier pas qui coûte

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for il n’y a que le premier pas qui coûte is 37 letters long, classified as a phrase. 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: "Quelle que soit l'affaire, le début est le plus difficile. Une fois commencée, elle devient plus facile à réaliser.".

No misspelling variants are generated for il n’y a que le premier pas qui coûte 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 que le premier pas qui coûte, spelled I-L- -N-’-Y- -A- -Q-U-E- -L-E- -P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -P-A-S- -Q-U-I- -C-O-Û-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.