la parole est d’argent, le silence est d’or
Letters
43 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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la parole est d’argent, le silence est d’or is aFrenchphrase. It means: Mieux vaut parfois se taire que parler. Pronounced \la pa.ʁɔ.l‿ɛ d‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ lə si.lɑ̃.s‿ɛ d‿ɔʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | la parole est d’argent, le silence est d’or |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \la pa.ʁɔ.l‿ɛ d‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ lə si.lɑ̃.s‿ɛ d‿ɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 43 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for la parole est d’argent, le silence est d’or is 43 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la pa.ʁɔ.l‿ɛ d‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ 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 que parler.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for la parole est d’argent, 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, le silence est d’or, spelled L-A- -P-A-R-O-L-E- -E-S-T- -D-’-A-R-G-E-N-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
- 1Mieux vaut parfois se taire que parler.
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