l’oisiveté est la mère de tous les vices

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for l’oisiveté est la mère de tous les vices is 40 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \l‿wa.ziv.te ɛ la mɛʁ də tu le vis\. 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: "Celui qui est oisif peut être exposé à toutes sortes de tentations et avoir le temps d’y céder.".

No misspelling variants are generated for l’oisiveté est la mère de tous les vices 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’oisiveté est la mère de tous les vices, spelled L-’-O-I-S-I-V-E-T-É- -E-S-T- -L-A- -M-È-R-E- -D-E- -T-O-U-S- -L-E-S- -V-I-C-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.