la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile

/\la kʁi.ti.k‿ɛ.t‿ɛ.ze mɛ l‿a.ʁ‿ɛ di.fi.sil\/ phrase

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Language

French

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la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile is aFrenchphrase. It means: Il est facile de trouver des défauts à quelque chose, alors qu’on ne ferait pas mieux soi-même. Pronounced \la kʁi.ti.k‿ɛ.t‿ɛ.ze mɛ l‿a.ʁ‿ɛ di.fi.sil\.

Key facts for la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile
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Headwordla critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\la kʁi.ti.k‿ɛ.t‿ɛ.ze mɛ l‿a.ʁ‿ɛ di.fi.sil\
Letters46
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile 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 la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile is 46 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la kʁi.ti.k‿ɛ.t‿ɛ.ze mɛ l‿a.ʁ‿ɛ di.fi.sil\. 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 facile de trouver des défauts à quelque chose, alors qu’on ne ferait pas mieux soi-même.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile 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 la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile, spelled L-A- -C-R-I-T-I-Q-U-E- -E-S-T- -A-I-S-É-E- -M-A-I-S- -L-’-A-R-T- -E-S-T- -D-I-F-F-I-C-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Il est facile de trouver des défauts à quelque chose, alors qu’on ne ferait pas mieux soi-même.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile"?
"la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile" is spelled L-A- -C-R-I-T-I-Q-U-E- -E-S-T- -A-I-S-É-E- -M-A-I-S- -L-’-A-R-T- -E-S-T- -D-I-F-F-I-C-I-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \la kʁi.ti.k‿ɛ.t‿ɛ.ze mɛ l‿a.ʁ‿ɛ di.fi.sil\.
What does "la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile" mean?
As a phrase, "la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile" means: Il est facile de trouver des défauts à quelque chose, alors qu’on ne ferait pas mieux soi-même.
How do you pronounce "la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile" is \la kʁi.ti.k‿ɛ.t‿ɛ.ze mɛ l‿a.ʁ‿ɛ di.fi.sil\. 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.