ne pas avoir d’âge
\nə pɑ.z‿a.vwaʁ d‿ɑʒ\
The verdict
“ne pas avoir d’âge” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Quel âge avait-il ? Quatre ans de plus que moi : vingt-cinq ans, était-ce possible ? En fait, l’expression : ne pas avoir d’âge, prenait en lui un sens absolu. C’était le vieillissement de la souff...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne pas avoir d’âge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə pɑ.z‿a.vwaʁ d‿ɑʒ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne pas avoir d’âge” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne pas avoir d’âge is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pɑ.z‿a.vwaʁ d‿ɑʒ\. 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 ne pas avoir d’âge 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 pas avoir d’âge, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -A-V-O-I-R- -D-’-Â-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quel âge avait-il ? Quatre ans de plus que moi : vingt-cinq ans, était-ce possible ? En fait, l’expression : ne pas avoir d’âge, prenait en lui un sens absolu. C’était le vieillissement de la souffrance, d’une souffrance ininterrompue dans laquelle il baignait déjà petit garçon, qui le recouvrait visiblement aujourd’hui. — (François Mauriac, Un adolescent d’autrefois, Flammarion, 1969, page 141)
- 2Être très ancien ; être intemporel.
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- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-A-S- -A-V-O-I-R- -D-’-Â-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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