ne tenir ni à oui ni à non
\nə tə.niʁ ni a wi ni a nɔ̃\
The verdict
“ne tenir ni à oui ni à non” 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
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - N’avoir pas d’opinion sur la décision à prendre, être indifférent sur la réponse à donner.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne tenir ni à oui ni à non |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə tə.niʁ ni a wi ni a nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne tenir ni à oui ni à non” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne tenir ni à oui ni à non is 26 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə tə.niʁ ni a wi ni a nɔ̃\. 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: "N’avoir pas d’opinion sur la décision à prendre, être indifférent sur la réponse à donner.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne tenir ni à oui ni à non 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 tenir ni à oui ni à non, spelled N-E- -T-E-N-I-R- -N-I- -À- -O-U-I- -N-I- -À- -N-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1N’avoir pas d’opinion sur la décision à prendre, être indifférent sur la réponse à donner.
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 tenir ni à oui ni à non”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -T-E-N-I-R- -N-I- -À- -O-U-I- -N-I- -À- -N-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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