mieux vaut prévenir que guérir
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mieux vaut prévenir que guérir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \mjø vo pʁe.və.niʁ kə ɡe.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mieux vaut prévenir que guérir” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Il vaut mieux prendre des précautions pour rester en bonne santé que de devoir soigner une maladie.
- 2Il vaut mieux prendre des mesures pour éviter un ennui que d'être obligé d’y remédier par la suite.
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Using “mieux vaut prévenir que guérir”
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- 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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