mens sana in corpore sano
\mɛ̃s sa.na in kɔʁ.pɔ.ʁe sa.no\
The verdict
“mens sana in corpore sano” 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
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Un esprit sain dans un corps sain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mens sana in corpore sano |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \mɛ̃s sa.na in kɔʁ.pɔ.ʁe sa.no\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mens sana in corpore sano” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mens sana in corpore sano is 25 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ̃s sa.na in kɔʁ.pɔ.ʁe sa.no\. 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: "Un esprit sain dans un corps sain.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mens sana in corpore sano 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 mens sana in corpore sano, spelled M-E-N-S- -S-A-N-A- -I-N- -C-O-R-P-O-R-E- -S-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Un esprit sain dans un corps sain.
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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- The one correct French spelling is M-E-N-S- -S-A-N-A- -I-N- -C-O-R-P-O-R-E- -S-A-N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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