que Dieu nous protège
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | que Dieu nous protège |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \kə djø nu pʁɔ.tɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “que Dieu nous protège” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Phrase prononcée lorsqu’un groupe de personnes est dans une situation dangereuse ou défavorable.
Synonyms
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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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