jack of all trades, master of none

/\dʒæk ɒv ɔːl ˈtɹeɪdz mɑː.stər ɒv nʌn\/ noun

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34 characters

Language

French

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jack of all trades, master of none is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne qui a de nombreuses capacités sans avoir de réel talent. Pronounced \dʒæk ɒv ɔːl ˈtɹeɪdz mɑː.stər ɒv nʌn\.

Key facts for jack of all trades, master of none
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Headwordjack of all trades, master of none
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dʒæk ɒv ɔːl ˈtɹeɪdz mɑː.stər ɒv nʌn\
Letters34
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jack of all trades, master of none is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for jack of all trades, master of none is 34 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʒæk ɒv ɔːl ˈtɹeɪdz mɑː.stər ɒv nʌn\. 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: "Personne qui a de nombreuses capacités sans avoir de réel talent.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jack of all trades, master of none in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 jack of all trades, master of none, spelled J-A-C-K- -O-F- -A-L-L- -T-R-A-D-E-S-,- -M-A-S-T-E-R- -O-F- -N-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui a de nombreuses capacités sans avoir de réel talent.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jack of all trades, master of none"?
"jack of all trades, master of none" is spelled J-A-C-K- -O-F- -A-L-L- -T-R-A-D-E-S-,- -M-A-S-T-E-R- -O-F- -N-O-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dʒæk ɒv ɔːl ˈtɹeɪdz mɑː.stər ɒv nʌn\.
What does "jack of all trades, master of none" mean?
As a noun, "jack of all trades, master of none" means: Personne qui a de nombreuses capacités sans avoir de réel talent.
How do you pronounce "jack of all trades, master of none"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jack of all trades, master of none" is \dʒæk ɒv ɔːl ˈtɹeɪdz mɑː.stər ɒv nʌn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.