perdre sa jeunesse

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for perdre sa jeunesse is 18 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁdʁ sa ʒœ.nɛs\. 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: "Perdre son temps.".

No misspelling variants are generated for perdre sa jeunesse 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 perdre sa jeunesse, spelled P-E-R-D-R-E- -S-A- -J-E-U-N-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.