ne rien devoir au hasard

\nə ʁjɛ̃ də.vwa.ʁ‿o a.zaʁ\

/\nə ʁjɛ̃ də.vwa.ʁ‿o a.zaʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“ne rien devoir au hasard” 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
24
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ne pas être fortuit.

Key facts for ne rien devoir au hasard
PropertyValue
Headwordne rien devoir au hasard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\nə ʁjɛ̃ də.vwa.ʁ‿o a.zaʁ\
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “ne rien devoir au hasard” sits in French frequency

ne rien devoir au hasard falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ne rien devoir au hasard is 24 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə ʁjɛ̃ də.vwa.ʁ‿o a.zaʁ\. 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 pas être fortuit.".

No misspelling variants are generated for ne rien devoir au hasard 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 rien devoir au hasard, spelled N-E- -R-I-E-N- -D-E-V-O-I-R- -A-U- -H-A-S-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ne pas être fortuit.

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How do you spell "ne rien devoir au hasard"?
"ne rien devoir au hasard" is spelled N-E- -R-I-E-N- -D-E-V-O-I-R- -A-U- -H-A-S-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \nə ʁjɛ̃ də.vwa.ʁ‿o a.zaʁ\.
What does "ne rien devoir au hasard" mean?
As a verb, "ne rien devoir au hasard" means: Ne pas être fortuit.
How do you pronounce "ne rien devoir au hasard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ne rien devoir au hasard" is \nə ʁjɛ̃ də.vwa.ʁ‿o a.zaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “ne rien devoir au hasard”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is N-E- -R-I-E-N- -D-E-V-O-I-R- -A-U- -H-A-S-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \nə ʁjɛ̃ də.vwa.ʁ‿o a.zaʁ\ (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.

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