mieux vaut prévenir que guérir

/\mjø vo pʁe.və.niʁ kə ɡe.ʁiʁ\/ phrase

The verdict

“mieux vaut prévenir que guérir” 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
30
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Il vaut mieux prendre des précautions pour rester en bonne santé que de devoir soigner une maladie.

Key facts for mieux vaut prévenir que guérir
PropertyValue
Headwordmieux vaut prévenir que guérir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\mjø vo pʁe.və.niʁ kə ɡe.ʁiʁ\
Letters30
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “mieux vaut prévenir que guérir” sits in French frequency

mieux vaut prévenir que guérir falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mieux vaut prévenir que guérir is 30 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mjø vo pʁe.və.niʁ kə ɡe.ʁiʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for mieux vaut prévenir que guérir 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 mieux vaut prévenir que guérir, spelled M-I-E-U-X- -V-A-U-T- -P-R-É-V-E-N-I-R- -Q-U-E- -G-U-É-R-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Il vaut mieux prendre des précautions pour rester en bonne santé que de devoir soigner une maladie.
  2. 2
    Il vaut mieux prendre des mesures pour éviter un ennui que d'être obligé d’y remédier par la suite.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mieux vaut prévenir que guérir"?
"mieux vaut prévenir que guérir" is spelled M-I-E-U-X- -V-A-U-T- -P-R-É-V-E-N-I-R- -Q-U-E- -G-U-É-R-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mjø vo pʁe.və.niʁ kə ɡe.ʁiʁ\.
What does "mieux vaut prévenir que guérir" mean?
As a phrase, "mieux vaut prévenir que guérir" means: Il vaut mieux prendre des précautions pour rester en bonne santé que de devoir soigner une maladie.
How do you pronounce "mieux vaut prévenir que guérir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mieux vaut prévenir que guérir" is \mjø vo pʁe.və.niʁ kə ɡe.ʁiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “mieux vaut prévenir que guérir”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is M-I-E-U-X- -V-A-U-T- -P-R-É-V-E-N-I-R- -Q-U-E- -G-U-É-R-I-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \mjø vo pʁe.və.niʁ kə ɡe.ʁiʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.