que vous savez
The verdict
“que vous savez” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Que nous savons mais que je ne veux pas nommer. Note d’usage : Se dit, entre personnes complices, quand on veut faire allusion à quelque chose sans le nommer et qu’il est superflu de le faire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | que vous savez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kə vu sa.ve\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “que vous savez” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for que vous savez is 14 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kə vu sa.ve\. 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: "Que nous savons mais que je ne veux pas nommer. Note d’usage : Se dit, entre personnes complices, quand on veut faire allusion à quelque chose sans le nommer et qu’il est superflu de le faire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for que vous savez 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 vous savez, spelled Q-U-E- -V-O-U-S- -S-A-V-E-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que nous savons mais que je ne veux pas nommer. Note d’usage : Se dit, entre personnes complices, quand on veut faire allusion à quelque chose sans le nommer et qu’il est superflu de le faire.
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.
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Using “que vous savez”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E- -V-O-U-S- -S-A-V-E-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kə vu sa.ve\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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