quand on n’a pas de tête, il faut avoir des jambes
The verdict
“quand on n’a pas de tête, il faut avoir des jambes” 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
- 50
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Maxime exprimant qu’un oubli peut en général se réparer, mais souvent en nécessitant de la marche qu’on aurait pu éviter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quand on n’a pas de tête, il faut avoir des jambes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 50 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quand on n’a pas de tête, il faut avoir des jambes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quand on n’a pas de tête, il faut avoir des jambes is 50 letters long, classified as a phrase. 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: "Maxime exprimant qu’un oubli peut en général se réparer, mais souvent en nécessitant de la marche qu’on aurait pu éviter.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quand on n’a pas de tête, il faut avoir des jambes 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 on n’a pas de tête, il faut avoir des jambes, spelled Q-U-A-N-D- -O-N- -N-’-A- -P-A-S- -D-E- -T-Ê-T-E-,- -I-L- -F-A-U-T- -A-V-O-I-R- -D-E-S- -J-A-M-B-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maxime exprimant qu’un oubli peut en général se réparer, mais souvent en nécessitant de la marche qu’on aurait pu éviter.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-N-D- -O-N- -N-’-A- -P-A-S- -D-E- -T-Ê-T-E-,- -I-L- -F-A-U-T- -A-V-O-I-R- -D-E-S- -J-A-M-B-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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