plus on est de fous, plus on rit
The verdict
“plus on est de fous, plus on rit” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 32
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Plus on est nombreux, plus on s’amuse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plus on est de fous, plus on rit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | \ply.z‿ɔ̃.n‿ɛ d(ə) fu, ply.z‿ɔ̃ ʁi\ |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “plus on est de fous, plus on rit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plus on est de fous, plus on rit is 32 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ply.z‿ɔ̃.n‿ɛ d(ə) fu, ply.z‿ɔ̃ ʁi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for plus on est de fous, plus on rit 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 plus on est de fous, plus on rit, spelled P-L-U-S- -O-N- -E-S-T- -D-E- -F-O-U-S-,- -P-L-U-S- -O-N- -R-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plus on est nombreux, plus on s’amuse.
- 2S’emploie lorsque, dans une situation conflictuelle entre deux ou plusieurs personnes, un nouveau venu arrive pour y mettre son grain de sel.
- 3S’emploie également lorsqu’un groupe, pour une raison quelconque, ne peut admettre de personne supplémentaire et qu’il s’en présente une qu’il est obligé d’accepter.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-L-U-S- -O-N- -E-S-T- -D-E- -F-O-U-S-,- -P-L-U-S- -O-N- -R-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ply.z‿ɔ̃.n‿ɛ d(ə) fu, ply.z‿ɔ̃ ʁi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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