quand je pense
The verdict
“quand je pense” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a conjunction — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Se dit pour énoncer un fait qui nous étonne ou que l'on regrette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quand je pense |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \kɑ̃ j(ə) pɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quand je pense” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quand je pense is 14 letters long, classified as a conjunction, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃ j(ə) pɑ̃s\. 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 dit pour énoncer un fait qui nous étonne ou que l'on regrette.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quand je pense 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 quand je pense, spelled Q-U-A-N-D- -J-E- -P-E-N-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit pour énoncer un fait qui nous étonne ou que l'on regrette.
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Using “quand je pense”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-N-D- -J-E- -P-E-N-S-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɑ̃ j(ə) pɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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