ne pas avoir gardé les cochons ensemble

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ne pas avoir gardé les cochons ensemble is 39 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pa.z‿a.vwaʁ.ɡaʁ.de.le.kɔ.ʃɔ̃.(z)ɑ̃.sɑ̃bl\. 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: "Formule utilisée pour remettre à sa place un interlocuteur inconvenant.".

No misspelling variants are generated for ne pas avoir gardé les cochons ensemble 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 gardé les cochons ensemble, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -A-V-O-I-R- -G-A-R-D-É- -L-E-S- -C-O-C-H-O-N-S- -E-N-S-E-M-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.