le remède est pire que le mal
The verdict
“le remède est pire que le mal” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 29
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Se dit d’un remède qui paraît dangereux et ne ferait que remplacer un mal par un mal plus grand.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | le remède est pire que le mal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \lə ʁə.mɛ.d‿ɛ piʁ kə lə mal\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “le remède est pire que le mal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for le remède est pire que le mal is 29 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə ʁə.mɛ.d‿ɛ piʁ kə lə mal\. 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: "Se dit d’un remède qui paraît dangereux et ne ferait que remplacer un mal par un mal plus grand.".
No misspelling variants are generated for le remède est pire que le mal 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 remède est pire que le mal, spelled L-E- -R-E-M-È-D-E- -E-S-T- -P-I-R-E- -Q-U-E- -L-E- -M-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’un remède qui paraît dangereux et ne ferait que remplacer un mal par un mal plus grand.
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Using “le remède est pire que le mal”
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- The one correct French spelling is L-E- -R-E-M-È-D-E- -E-S-T- -P-I-R-E- -Q-U-E- -L-E- -M-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lə ʁə.mɛ.d‿ɛ piʁ kə lə mal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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