ne pas avoir dit son dernier mot
\nə pa.z‿a.vwaʁ di sɔ̃ dɛʁ.nje mo\
The verdict
“ne pas avoir dit son dernier mot” 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
- 32
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ne pas avoir fini d’agir ; ne pas renoncer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne pas avoir dit son dernier mot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə pa.z‿a.vwaʁ di sɔ̃ dɛʁ.nje mo\ |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne pas avoir dit son dernier mot” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne pas avoir dit son dernier mot is 32 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pa.z‿a.vwaʁ di sɔ̃ dɛʁ.nje mo\. 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 pas avoir fini d’agir ; ne pas renoncer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne pas avoir dit son dernier mot 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 dit son dernier mot, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -A-V-O-I-R- -D-I-T- -S-O-N- -D-E-R-N-I-E-R- -M-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne pas avoir fini d’agir ; ne pas renoncer.
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- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-A-S- -A-V-O-I-R- -D-I-T- -S-O-N- -D-E-R-N-I-E-R- -M-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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