la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille

/\la vi n‿ɛ pas‿z‿œ̃ lɔ̃ flœv tʁɑ̃.kil\/ proverb

Letters

42 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille is aFrenchproverb. It means: La vie n’est pas toujours une partie de plaisir. Pronounced \la vi n‿ɛ pas‿z‿œ̃ lɔ̃ flœv tʁɑ̃.kil\.

Key facts for la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille
PropertyValue
Headwordla vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProverb
IPA\la vi n‿ɛ pas‿z‿œ̃ lɔ̃ flœv tʁɑ̃.kil\
Letters42
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille is 42 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la vi n‿ɛ pas‿z‿œ̃ lɔ̃ flœv tʁɑ̃.kil\. 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: "La vie n’est pas toujours une partie de plaisir.".

No misspelling variants are generated for la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille 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 la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille, spelled L-A- -V-I-E- -N-’-E-S-T- -P-A-S- -U-N- -L-O-N-G- -F-L-E-U-V-E- -T-R-A-N-Q-U-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    La vie n’est pas toujours une partie de plaisir.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille"?
"la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille" is spelled L-A- -V-I-E- -N-’-E-S-T- -P-A-S- -U-N- -L-O-N-G- -F-L-E-U-V-E- -T-R-A-N-Q-U-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \la vi n‿ɛ pas‿z‿œ̃ lɔ̃ flœv tʁɑ̃.kil\.
What does "la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille" mean?
As a proverb, "la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille" means: La vie n’est pas toujours une partie de plaisir.
How do you pronounce "la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille" is \la vi n‿ɛ pas‿z‿œ̃ lɔ̃ flœv tʁɑ̃.kil\. 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.