le franc est tombé
The verdict
“le franc est tombé” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dit lorsqu’une personne vient de comprendre quelque chose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | le franc est tombé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \lə fʁɑ̃ ɛ tɔ̃.be\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “le franc est tombé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for le franc est tombé is 18 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə fʁɑ̃ ɛ tɔ̃.be\. 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: "Dit lorsqu’une personne vient de comprendre quelque chose.".
No misspelling variants are generated for le franc est tombé 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 le franc est tombé, spelled L-E- -F-R-A-N-C- -E-S-T- -T-O-M-B-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dit lorsqu’une personne vient de comprendre quelque chose.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “le franc est tombé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-E- -F-R-A-N-C- -E-S-T- -T-O-M-B-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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