ils furent heureux et eurent beaucoup d’enfants
\il fyʁ.t‿ø.ʁø e yʁ bo.ku d‿ɑ̃.fɑ̃\
The verdict
“ils furent heureux et eurent beaucoup d’enfants” 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
- 47
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Phrase de conclusion convenue et archétypique de nombreux contes pour enfants se terminant par le mariage des protagonistes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ils furent heureux et eurent beaucoup d’enfants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \il fyʁ.t‿ø.ʁø e yʁ bo.ku d‿ɑ̃.fɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 47 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ils furent heureux et eurent beaucoup d’enfants” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ils furent heureux et eurent beaucoup d’enfants is 47 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \il fyʁ.t‿ø.ʁø e yʁ bo.ku d‿ɑ̃.fɑ̃\. 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: "Phrase de conclusion convenue et archétypique de nombreux contes pour enfants se terminant par le mariage des protagonistes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ils furent heureux et eurent beaucoup d’enfants 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 ils furent heureux et eurent beaucoup d’enfants, spelled I-L-S- -F-U-R-E-N-T- -H-E-U-R-E-U-X- -E-T- -E-U-R-E-N-T- -B-E-A-U-C-O-U-P- -D-’-E-N-F-A-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Phrase de conclusion convenue et archétypique de nombreux contes pour enfants se terminant par le mariage des protagonistes.
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- The one correct French spelling is I-L-S- -F-U-R-E-N-T- -H-E-U-R-E-U-X- -E-T- -E-U-R-E-N-T- -B-E-A-U-C-O-U-P- -D-’-E-N-F-A-N-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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