ne parler que par apophtegmes
\nə paʁ.le kə pa.ʁ‿a.pɔf.tɛɡm\
The verdict
“ne parler que par apophtegmes” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Parsemer ses propos ou ses discours de sentences, de maximes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne parler que par apophtegmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə paʁ.le kə pa.ʁ‿a.pɔf.tɛɡm\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne parler que par apophtegmes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne parler que par apophtegmes is 29 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə paʁ.le kə pa.ʁ‿a.pɔf.tɛɡm\. 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: "Parsemer ses propos ou ses discours de sentences, de maximes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne parler que par apophtegmes 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 parler que par apophtegmes, spelled N-E- -P-A-R-L-E-R- -Q-U-E- -P-A-R- -A-P-O-P-H-T-E-G-M-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parsemer ses propos ou ses discours de sentences, de maximes.
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- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-A-R-L-E-R- -Q-U-E- -P-A-R- -A-P-O-P-H-T-E-G-M-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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