qui bene amat, bene castigat
\ˈkʷiː ˈbe.ne ˈa.mat ˈbe.ne kas.ˈtiː.ɡat\
The verdict
“qui bene amat, bene castigat” 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
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Qui aime bien, châtie bien.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | qui bene amat, bene castigat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ˈkʷiː ˈbe.ne ˈa.mat ˈbe.ne kas.ˈtiː.ɡat\ |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “qui bene amat, bene castigat” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for qui bene amat, bene castigat is 28 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈkʷiː ˈbe.ne ˈa.mat ˈbe.ne kas.ˈtiː.ɡat\. 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: "Qui aime bien, châtie bien.".
No misspelling variants are generated for qui bene amat, bene castigat 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 bene amat, bene castigat, spelled Q-U-I- -B-E-N-E- -A-M-A-T-,- -B-E-N-E- -C-A-S-T-I-G-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui aime bien, châtie bien.
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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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-I- -B-E-N-E- -A-M-A-T-,- -B-E-N-E- -C-A-S-T-I-G-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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