partir comme des petits pains
\paʁ.tiʁ kɔm dɛ pə.ti pɛ̃\
The verdict
“partir comme des petits pains” 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
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Se vendre très facilement ou très rapidement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | partir comme des petits pains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.tiʁ kɔm dɛ pə.ti pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “partir comme des petits pains” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for partir comme des petits pains is 29 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.tiʁ kɔm dɛ pə.ti pɛ̃\. 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: "Se vendre très facilement ou très rapidement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for partir comme des petits pains 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 partir comme des petits pains, spelled P-A-R-T-I-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-E-S- -P-E-T-I-T-S- -P-A-I-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se vendre très facilement ou très rapidement.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-R-T-I-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-E-S- -P-E-T-I-T-S- -P-A-I-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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