les chiens aboient, la caravane passe
The verdict
“les chiens aboient, la caravane passe” 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
- 37
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Variante de le chien aboie, la caravane passe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | les chiens aboient, la caravane passe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \le ʃjɛ̃ a.bwa la ka.ʁa.van pas\ |
| Letters | 37 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “les chiens aboient, la caravane passe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for les chiens aboient, la caravane passe is 37 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le ʃjɛ̃ a.bwa la ka.ʁa.van pas\. 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: "Variante de le chien aboie, la caravane passe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for les chiens aboient, la caravane passe 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 les chiens aboient, la caravane passe, spelled L-E-S- -C-H-I-E-N-S- -A-B-O-I-E-N-T-,- -L-A- -C-A-R-A-V-A-N-E- -P-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variante de le chien aboie, la caravane passe.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-E-S- -C-H-I-E-N-S- -A-B-O-I-E-N-T-,- -L-A- -C-A-R-A-V-A-N-E- -P-A-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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