que non
The verdict
“que non” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Exprime, en général en tête de phrase ou seul, un refus ou une négation, avec plus de vigueur que le simple non, grâce à sa valeur exclamative.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | que non |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \kə nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “que non” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for que non is 7 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kə nɔ̃\. 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: "Exprime, en général en tête de phrase ou seul, un refus ou une négation, avec plus de vigueur que le simple non, grâce à sa valeur exclamative.".
No misspelling variants are generated for que non 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 non, spelled Q-U-E- -N-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exprime, en général en tête de phrase ou seul, un refus ou une négation, avec plus de vigueur que le simple non, grâce à sa valeur exclamative.
Synonyms
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Using “que non”
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E- -N-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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