ne pas avoir de race

\nə pa.z‿a.vwaʁ də ʁas\

/\nə pa.z‿a.vwaʁ də ʁas\/ verb

The verdict

“ne pas avoir de race” 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
20
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être méprisable. N’avoir aucun honneur, aucune dignité.

Key facts for ne pas avoir de race
PropertyValue
Headwordne pas avoir de race
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\nə pa.z‿a.vwaʁ də ʁas\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “ne pas avoir de race” sits in French frequency

ne pas avoir de race 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 ne pas avoir de race is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pa.z‿a.vwaʁ də ʁas\. 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: "Être méprisable. N’avoir aucun honneur, aucune dignité.".

No misspelling variants are generated for ne pas avoir de race 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 de race, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -A-V-O-I-R- -D-E- -R-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être méprisable. N’avoir aucun honneur, aucune dignité.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ne pas avoir de race"?
"ne pas avoir de race" is spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -A-V-O-I-R- -D-E- -R-A-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \nə pa.z‿a.vwaʁ də ʁas\.
What does "ne pas avoir de race" mean?
As a verb, "ne pas avoir de race" means: Être méprisable. N’avoir aucun honneur, aucune dignité.
How do you pronounce "ne pas avoir de race"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ne pas avoir de race" is \nə pa.z‿a.vwaʁ də ʁas\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “ne pas avoir de race”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-A-S- -A-V-O-I-R- -D-E- -R-A-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \nə pa.z‿a.vwaʁ də ʁas\ (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.

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