qui bon l’achète, bon le boit
\ki bɔ̃ l‿a.ʃɛt bɔ̃ lə bwa\
The verdict
“qui bon l’achète, bon le boit” 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
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Si l’on veut de la bonne qualité, il faut en payer le prix.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | qui bon l’achète, bon le boit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ki bɔ̃ l‿a.ʃɛt bɔ̃ lə bwa\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “qui bon l’achète, bon le boit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for qui bon l’achète, bon le boit is 29 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki bɔ̃ l‿a.ʃɛt bɔ̃ lə bwa\. 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: "Si l’on veut de la bonne qualité, il faut en payer le prix.".
No misspelling variants are generated for qui bon l’achète, bon le boit 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 bon l’achète, bon le boit, spelled Q-U-I- -B-O-N- -L-’-A-C-H-È-T-E-,- -B-O-N- -L-E- -B-O-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Si l’on veut de la bonne qualité, il faut en payer le prix.
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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-I- -B-O-N- -L-’-A-C-H-È-T-E-,- -B-O-N- -L-E- -B-O-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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