l’erreur est humaine
\l‿ɛ.ʁœ.ʁ‿ɛ.t‿y.mɛn\
The verdict
“l’erreur est humaine” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Il est de la nature de l’homme de se tromper.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | l’erreur est humaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \l‿ɛ.ʁœ.ʁ‿ɛ.t‿y.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “l’erreur est humaine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for l’erreur est humaine is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \l‿ɛ.ʁœ.ʁ‿ɛ.t‿y.mɛn\. 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: "Il est de la nature de l’homme de se tromper.".
No misspelling variants are generated for l’erreur est humaine 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 l’erreur est humaine, spelled L-’-E-R-R-E-U-R- -E-S-T- -H-U-M-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Il est de la nature de l’homme de se tromper.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is L-’-E-R-R-E-U-R- -E-S-T- -H-U-M-A-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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