ne pas changer d’une virgule
\nə pa ʃɑ̃.ʒe d‿yn viʁ.ɡyl\
The verdict
“ne pas changer d’une virgule” 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
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Reprendre un texte à l’identique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne pas changer d’une virgule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə pa ʃɑ̃.ʒe d‿yn viʁ.ɡyl\ |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne pas changer d’une virgule” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne pas changer d’une virgule is 28 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pa ʃɑ̃.ʒe d‿yn viʁ.ɡyl\. 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 changer d’une virgule 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 changer d’une virgule, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -C-H-A-N-G-E-R- -D-’-U-N-E- -V-I-R-G-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Reprendre un texte à l’identique.
- 2Ne pas évoluer du tout ; rester tel quel.
Synonyms
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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- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-A-S- -C-H-A-N-G-E-R- -D-’-U-N-E- -V-I-R-G-U-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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