quand le Diable devint vieux il se fit ermite
The verdict
“quand le Diable devint vieux il se fit ermite” 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
- 45
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Se refaire une virginité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quand le Diable devint vieux il se fit ermite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \kɑ̃ lə djɑ.blə də.vɛ̃ vjø il sə fi ɛʁ.mit\ |
| Letters | 45 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quand le Diable devint vieux il se fit ermite” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quand le Diable devint vieux il se fit ermite is 45 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃ lə djɑ.blə də.vɛ̃ vjø il sə fi ɛʁ.mit\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for quand le Diable devint vieux il se fit ermite 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 le Diable devint vieux il se fit ermite, spelled Q-U-A-N-D- -L-E- -D-I-A-B-L-E- -D-E-V-I-N-T- -V-I-E-U-X- -I-L- -S-E- -F-I-T- -E-R-M-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se refaire une virginité.
- 2Se racheter une conduite.
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Using “quand le Diable devint vieux il se fit ermite”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-N-D- -L-E- -D-I-A-B-L-E- -D-E-V-I-N-T- -V-I-E-U-X- -I-L- -S-E- -F-I-T- -E-R-M-I-T-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɑ̃ lə djɑ.blə də.vɛ̃ vjø il sə fi ɛʁ.mit\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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