ne valoir pas le pain qu’on mange
\nə va.lwaʁ pa lə pɛ̃ kɔ̃ mɑ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“ne valoir pas le pain qu’on mange” 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
- 33
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être un fainéant, un homme qui n’est bon à rien.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne valoir pas le pain qu’on mange |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə va.lwaʁ pa lə pɛ̃ kɔ̃ mɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 33 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne valoir pas le pain qu’on mange” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne valoir pas le pain qu’on mange is 33 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə va.lwaʁ pa lə pɛ̃ kɔ̃ mɑ̃ʒ\. 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: "Être un fainéant, un homme qui n’est bon à rien.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne valoir pas le pain qu’on mange 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 valoir pas le pain qu’on mange, spelled N-E- -V-A-L-O-I-R- -P-A-S- -L-E- -P-A-I-N- -Q-U-’-O-N- -M-A-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être un fainéant, un homme qui n’est bon à rien.
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- -V-A-L-O-I-R- -P-A-S- -L-E- -P-A-I-N- -Q-U-’-O-N- -M-A-N-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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