les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières

/\le p(ə).ti ʁɥi.so fɔ̃ le ɡʁɑ̃d ʁi.vjɛʁ\/ phrase

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French

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les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières is aFrenchphrase. It means: Accumuler de petits profits peut mener à un grand bénéfice. Pronounced \le p(ə).ti ʁɥi.so fɔ̃ le ɡʁɑ̃d ʁi.vjɛʁ\.

Key facts for les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières
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Headwordles petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\le p(ə).ti ʁɥi.so fɔ̃ le ɡʁɑ̃d ʁi.vjɛʁ\
Letters46
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières is 46 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le p(ə).ti ʁɥi.so fɔ̃ le ɡʁɑ̃d ʁi.vjɛʁ\. 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: "Accumuler de petits profits peut mener à un grand bénéfice.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières, spelled L-E-S- -P-E-T-I-T-S- -R-U-I-S-S-E-A-U-X- -F-O-N-T- -L-E-S- -G-R-A-N-D-E-S- -R-I-V-I-È-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Accumuler de petits profits peut mener à un grand bénéfice.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières"?
"les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières" is spelled L-E-S- -P-E-T-I-T-S- -R-U-I-S-S-E-A-U-X- -F-O-N-T- -L-E-S- -G-R-A-N-D-E-S- -R-I-V-I-È-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \le p(ə).ti ʁɥi.so fɔ̃ le ɡʁɑ̃d ʁi.vjɛʁ\.
What does "les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières" mean?
As a phrase, "les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières" means: Accumuler de petits profits peut mener à un grand bénéfice.
How do you pronounce "les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières" is \le p(ə).ti ʁɥi.so fɔ̃ le ɡʁɑ̃d ʁi.vjɛʁ\. 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.