on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs

/\ɔ̃ nə fɛ pa d‿ɔm.lɛt sɑ̃ ka.se de.z‿ø\/ phrase

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Language

French

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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\.

Key facts for on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs
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Headwordon ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\ɔ̃ nə fɛ pa d‿ɔm.lɛt sɑ̃ ka.se de.z‿ø\
Letters46
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

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

  1. 1
    Quand on veut faire une chose, il faut se résigner aux risques qu’elle comporte.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs"?
"on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs" is 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. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ̃ nə fɛ pa d‿ɔm.lɛt sɑ̃ ka.se de.z‿ø\.
What does "on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs" mean?
As a phrase, "on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs" means: Quand on veut faire une chose, il faut se résigner aux risques qu’elle comporte.
How do you pronounce "on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs" is \ɔ̃ nə fɛ pa d‿ɔm.lɛt sɑ̃ ka.se de.z‿ø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.