la parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or

/\la pa.ʁɔ.l‿ɛ d‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ e lə si.lɑ̃.s‿ɛ d‿ɔʁ\/ phrase

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45 characters

Language

French

word origin

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la parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or is aFrenchphrase. It means: Mieux vaut parfois se taire plutôt que parler. Pronounced \la pa.ʁɔ.l‿ɛ d‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ e lə si.lɑ̃.s‿ɛ d‿ɔʁ\.

Key facts for la parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or
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Headwordla parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\la pa.ʁɔ.l‿ɛ d‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ e lə si.lɑ̃.s‿ɛ d‿ɔʁ\
Letters45
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or 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 parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or is 45 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la pa.ʁɔ.l‿ɛ d‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ e lə si.lɑ̃.s‿ɛ d‿ɔʁ\. 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: "Mieux vaut parfois se taire plutôt que parler.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or 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 parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or, spelled L-A- -P-A-R-O-L-E- -E-S-T- -D-’-A-R-G-E-N-T- -E-T- -L-E- -S-I-L-E-N-C-E- -E-S-T- -D-’-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mieux vaut parfois se taire plutôt que parler.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or"?
"la parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or" is spelled L-A- -P-A-R-O-L-E- -E-S-T- -D-’-A-R-G-E-N-T- -E-T- -L-E- -S-I-L-E-N-C-E- -E-S-T- -D-’-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is \la pa.ʁɔ.l‿ɛ d‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ e lə si.lɑ̃.s‿ɛ d‿ɔʁ\.
What does "la parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or" mean?
As a phrase, "la parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or" means: Mieux vaut parfois se taire plutôt que parler.
How do you pronounce "la parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "la parole est d’argent et le silence est d’or" is \la pa.ʁɔ.l‿ɛ d‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ e lə si.lɑ̃.s‿ɛ d‿ɔʁ\. 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.