ne pas valoir cher
\nə pa va.lwaʁ ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“ne pas valoir cher” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être de peu de valeur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne pas valoir cher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə pa va.lwaʁ ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne pas valoir cher” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne pas valoir cher is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pa va.lwaʁ ʃɛʁ\. 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 valoir cher 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 valoir cher, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -V-A-L-O-I-R- -C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être de peu de valeur.
- 2Être sans énergie, sans ressort.
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- -V-A-L-O-I-R- -C-H-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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