prudence est mère de sûreté

/\pʁy.dɑ̃.s‿ɛ mɛʁ də syʁ.te\/ phrase

The verdict

“prudence est mère de sûreté” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
27
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Il faut faire attention aux conséquences de ses actes, agir avec prudence, pour rester en sécurité.

Key facts for prudence est mère de sûreté
PropertyValue
Headwordprudence est mère de sûreté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\pʁy.dɑ̃.s‿ɛ mɛʁ də syʁ.te\
Letters27
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “prudence est mère de sûreté” sits in French frequency

prudence est mère de sûreté falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prudence est mère de sûreté is 27 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁy.dɑ̃.s‿ɛ mɛʁ də syʁ.te\. 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: "Il faut faire attention aux conséquences de ses actes, agir avec prudence, pour rester en sécurité.".

No misspelling variants are generated for prudence est mère de sûreté 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 prudence est mère de sûreté, spelled P-R-U-D-E-N-C-E- -E-S-T- -M-È-R-E- -D-E- -S-Û-R-E-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Il faut faire attention aux conséquences de ses actes, agir avec prudence, pour rester en sécurité.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prudence est mère de sûreté"?
"prudence est mère de sûreté" is spelled P-R-U-D-E-N-C-E- -E-S-T- -M-È-R-E- -D-E- -S-Û-R-E-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁy.dɑ̃.s‿ɛ mɛʁ də syʁ.te\.
What does "prudence est mère de sûreté" mean?
As a phrase, "prudence est mère de sûreté" means: Il faut faire attention aux conséquences de ses actes, agir avec prudence, pour rester en sécurité.
How do you pronounce "prudence est mère de sûreté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prudence est mère de sûreté" is \pʁy.dɑ̃.s‿ɛ mɛʁ də syʁ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “prudence est mère de sûreté”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is P-R-U-D-E-N-C-E- -E-S-T- -M-È-R-E- -D-E- -S-Û-R-E-T-É — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \pʁy.dɑ̃.s‿ɛ mɛʁ də syʁ.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.