qui aime bien, châtie bien
\ki ɛm bjɛ̃ ʃɑ.ti bjɛ̃\
The verdict
“qui aime bien, châtie bien” 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
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — On punit plus justement quelqu’un lorsqu’on l’aime bien.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | qui aime bien, châtie bien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ki ɛm bjɛ̃ ʃɑ.ti bjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “qui aime bien, châtie bien” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for qui aime bien, châtie bien is 26 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki ɛm bjɛ̃ ʃɑ.ti bjɛ̃\. 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: "On punit plus justement quelqu’un lorsqu’on l’aime bien.".
No misspelling variants are generated for qui aime bien, châtie bien 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 qui aime bien, châtie bien, spelled Q-U-I- -A-I-M-E- -B-I-E-N-,- -C-H-Â-T-I-E- -B-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1On punit plus justement quelqu’un lorsqu’on l’aime bien.
This word in other languages
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Using “qui aime bien, châtie bien”
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-I- -A-I-M-E- -B-I-E-N-,- -C-H-Â-T-I-E- -B-I-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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