que Dieu nous protège

/\kə djø nu pʁɔ.tɛʒ\/ phrase

The verdict

“que Dieu nous protège” 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
21
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Phrase prononcée lorsqu’un groupe de personnes est dans une situation dangereuse ou défavorable.

Key facts for que Dieu nous protège
PropertyValue
Headwordque Dieu nous protège
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\kə djø nu pʁɔ.tɛʒ\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “que Dieu nous protège” sits in French frequency

que Dieu nous protège 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 Dieu nous protège is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kə djø nu pʁɔ.tɛʒ\. 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: "Phrase prononcée lorsqu’un groupe de personnes est dans une situation dangereuse ou défavorable.".

No misspelling variants are generated for que Dieu nous protège 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 Dieu nous protège, spelled Q-U-E- -D-I-E-U- -N-O-U-S- -P-R-O-T-È-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Phrase prononcée lorsqu’un groupe de personnes est dans une situation dangereuse ou défavorable.

Synonyms

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "que Dieu nous protège"?
"que Dieu nous protège" is spelled Q-U-E- -D-I-E-U- -N-O-U-S- -P-R-O-T-È-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kə djø nu pʁɔ.tɛʒ\.
What does "que Dieu nous protège" mean?
As a phrase, "que Dieu nous protège" means: Phrase prononcée lorsqu’un groupe de personnes est dans une situation dangereuse ou défavorable.
How do you pronounce "que Dieu nous protège"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "que Dieu nous protège" is \kə djø nu pʁɔ.tɛʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “que Dieu nous protège”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E- -D-I-E-U- -N-O-U-S- -P-R-O-T-È-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kə djø nu pʁɔ.tɛʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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