que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre

/\kə sə.lɥi ki n‿a ʒa.mɛ … lɥi ʒɛ.t‿la pʁə.mjɛʁ pjɛʁ\/ phrase

The verdict

“que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre” 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
55
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pour dire qu’il ne faut pas blâmer quelqu’un pour une erreur que beaucoup de gens font.

Key facts for que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre
PropertyValue
Headwordque celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\kə sə.lɥi ki n‿a ʒa.mɛ … lɥi ʒɛ.t‿la pʁə.mjɛʁ pjɛʁ\
Letters55
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre” sits in French frequency

que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre 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 que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre is 55 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kə sə.lɥi ki n‿a ʒa.mɛ … lɥi ʒɛ.t‿la pʁə.mjɛʁ pjɛʁ\. 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: "Pour dire qu’il ne faut pas blâmer quelqu’un pour une erreur que beaucoup de gens font.".

No misspelling variants are generated for que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre 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 que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre, spelled Q-U-E- -C-E-L-U-I- -Q-U-I- -N-’-A- -J-A-M-A-I-S- -…- -L-U-I- -J-E-T-T-E- -L-A- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pour dire qu’il ne faut pas blâmer quelqu’un pour une erreur que beaucoup de gens font.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Cite this page

Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY-SA). Copy the citation:

PlainSpell, “que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre, French word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/fr/mot/que-celui-qui-n-a-jamais-lui-jette-la-premiere-pierre

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre"?
"que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre" is spelled Q-U-E- -C-E-L-U-I- -Q-U-I- -N-’-A- -J-A-M-A-I-S- -…- -L-U-I- -J-E-T-T-E- -L-A- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kə sə.lɥi ki n‿a ʒa.mɛ … lɥi ʒɛ.t‿la pʁə.mjɛʁ pjɛʁ\.
What does "que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre" mean?
As a phrase, "que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre" means: Pour dire qu’il ne faut pas blâmer quelqu’un pour une erreur que beaucoup de gens font.
How do you pronounce "que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre" is \kə sə.lɥi ki n‿a ʒa.mɛ … lɥi ʒɛ.t‿la pʁə.mjɛʁ pjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre" come from?
"que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Using “que celui qui n’a jamais … lui jette la première pierre”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E- -C-E-L-U-I- -Q-U-I- -N-’-A- -J-A-M-A-I-S- -…- -L-U-I- -J-E-T-T-E- -L-A- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kə sə.lɥi ki n‿a ʒa.mɛ … lɥi ʒɛ.t‿la pʁə.mjɛʁ pjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter Q in our French index:

Explore PlainSpell

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list