ne pas manquer de souffle
\nə pa mɑ̃.ke də sufl\
The verdict
“ne pas manquer de souffle” 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
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de ne pas manquer d’air.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne pas manquer de souffle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə pa mɑ̃.ke də sufl\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne pas manquer de souffle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne pas manquer de souffle is 25 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pa mɑ̃.ke də sufl\. 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: "Variante de ne pas manquer d’air.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ne pas manquer de souffle in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ne pas manquer de souffle, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -M-A-N-Q-U-E-R- -D-E- -S-O-U-F-F-L-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de ne pas manquer d’air.
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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Using “ne pas manquer de souffle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-A-S- -M-A-N-Q-U-E-R- -D-E- -S-O-U-F-F-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nə pa mɑ̃.ke də sufl\ (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.