on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs
Letters
46 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs is aFrenchphrase. It means: Quand on veut faire une chose, il faut se résigner aux risques qu’elle comporte. Pronounced \ɔ̃ nə fɛ pa d‿ɔm.lɛt sɑ̃ ka.se de.z‿ø\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ɔ̃ nə fɛ pa d‿ɔm.lɛt sɑ̃ ka.se de.z‿ø\ |
| Letters | 46 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs is 46 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ̃ nə fɛ pa d‿ɔm.lɛt sɑ̃ ka.se de.z‿ø\. 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: "Quand on veut faire une chose, il faut se résigner aux risques qu’elle comporte.".
No misspelling variants are generated for on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs 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 on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs, spelled O-N- -N-E- -F-A-I-T- -P-A-S- -D-’-O-M-E-L-E-T-T-E- -S-A-N-S- -C-A-S-S-E-R- -D-E-S- -Œ-U-F-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quand on veut faire une chose, il faut se résigner aux risques qu’elle comporte.
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