ne plus avoir de jambes
\nə ply.z‿a.vwaʁ de ʒɑ̃b\
The verdict
“ne plus avoir de jambes” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ne plus avoir la force de marcher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne plus avoir de jambes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə ply.z‿a.vwaʁ de ʒɑ̃b\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne plus avoir de jambes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne plus avoir de jambes is 23 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə ply.z‿a.vwaʁ de ʒɑ̃b\. 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 plus avoir la force de marcher.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne plus avoir de jambes 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 plus avoir de jambes, spelled N-E- -P-L-U-S- -A-V-O-I-R- -D-E- -J-A-M-B-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne plus avoir la force de marcher.
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- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-L-U-S- -A-V-O-I-R- -D-E- -J-A-M-B-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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