les chiens ne font pas des chats

/\le ʃjɛ̃ nə fɔ̃ pa de ʃa\/ phrase

Letters

32 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

les chiens ne font pas des chats is aFrenchphrase. It means: Les enfants ressemblent à leurs parents. Pronounced \le ʃjɛ̃ nə fɔ̃ pa de ʃa\.

Key facts for les chiens ne font pas des chats
PropertyValue
Headwordles chiens ne font pas des chats
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\le ʃjɛ̃ nə fɔ̃ pa de ʃa\
Letters32
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

les chiens ne font pas des chats 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 les chiens ne font pas des chats is 32 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le ʃjɛ̃ nə fɔ̃ pa de ʃa\. 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: "Les enfants ressemblent à leurs parents.".

No misspelling variants are generated for les chiens ne font pas des chats 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 ne font pas des chats, spelled L-E-S- -C-H-I-E-N-S- -N-E- -F-O-N-T- -P-A-S- -D-E-S- -C-H-A-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Les enfants ressemblent à leurs parents.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "les chiens ne font pas des chats"?
"les chiens ne font pas des chats" is spelled L-E-S- -C-H-I-E-N-S- -N-E- -F-O-N-T- -P-A-S- -D-E-S- -C-H-A-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \le ʃjɛ̃ nə fɔ̃ pa de ʃa\.
What does "les chiens ne font pas des chats" mean?
As a phrase, "les chiens ne font pas des chats" means: Les enfants ressemblent à leurs parents.
How do you pronounce "les chiens ne font pas des chats"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "les chiens ne font pas des chats" is \le ʃjɛ̃ nə fɔ̃ pa de ʃa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "les chiens ne font pas des chats" come from?
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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.