l’habit fait le moine
\l‿a.bi fɛ lə mwan\
The verdict
“l’habit fait le moine” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Une personne est jugée d'abord par son aspect extérieur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | l’habit fait le moine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \l‿a.bi fɛ lə mwan\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “l’habit fait le moine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for l’habit fait le moine is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \l‿a.bi fɛ lə mwan\. 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: "Une personne est jugée d'abord par son aspect extérieur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for l’habit fait le moine 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’habit fait le moine, spelled L-’-H-A-B-I-T- -F-A-I-T- -L-E- -M-O-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Une personne est jugée d'abord par son aspect extérieur.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-’-H-A-B-I-T- -F-A-I-T- -L-E- -M-O-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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