la fin justifie les moyens
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26 characters
Language
French
word origin
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la fin justifie les moyens is aFrenchphrase. It means: Si le but à atteindre est suffisamment juste ou important, il peut justifier des méthodes immorales, voire illégales ou violentes. Pronounced \la fɛ̃ ʒys.ti.fi le mwa.jɛ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | la fin justifie les moyens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \la fɛ̃ ʒys.ti.fi le mwa.jɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for la fin justifie les moyens is 26 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la fɛ̃ ʒys.ti.fi le mwa.jɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la fin justifie les moyens 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 fin justifie les moyens, spelled L-A- -F-I-N- -J-U-S-T-I-F-I-E- -L-E-S- -M-O-Y-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Si le but à atteindre est suffisamment juste ou important, il peut justifier des méthodes immorales, voire illégales ou violentes.
- 2Signifie que l'on est prêt à utiliser tous les moyens à sa disposition pour atteindre ses fins indépendamment que les fins ou les moyens soient considérées injustifiables, inacceptables, condamnables ou immorales pour d'autres.
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