ne mords pas la main qui te nourrit
\nə mɔʁ pa la mɛ̃ ki tə nu.ʁi\
The verdict
“ne mords pas la main qui te nourrit” 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
- 35
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ne trahis pas celui ou celle qui t’aide.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne mords pas la main qui te nourrit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \nə mɔʁ pa la mɛ̃ ki tə nu.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 35 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne mords pas la main qui te nourrit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne mords pas la main qui te nourrit is 35 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə mɔʁ pa la mɛ̃ ki tə nu.ʁi\. 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: "Ne trahis pas celui ou celle qui t’aide.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne mords pas la main qui te nourrit 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 ne mords pas la main qui te nourrit, spelled N-E- -M-O-R-D-S- -P-A-S- -L-A- -M-A-I-N- -Q-U-I- -T-E- -N-O-U-R-R-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne trahis pas celui ou celle qui t’aide.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -M-O-R-D-S- -P-A-S- -L-A- -M-A-I-N- -Q-U-I- -T-E- -N-O-U-R-R-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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