qui va lentement va sûrement

phrase

The verdict

“qui va lentement va sûrement” 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) — Synonyme de qui va piano, va sano.

Key facts for qui va lentement va sûrement
PropertyValue
Headwordqui va lentement va sûrement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
Letters28
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “qui va lentement va sûrement” sits in French frequency

qui va lentement va sûrement falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for qui va lentement va sûrement is 28 letters long, classified as a phrase. 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: "Synonyme de qui va piano, va sano.".

No misspelling variants are generated for qui va lentement va sûrement 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 va lentement va sûrement, spelled Q-U-I- -V-A- -L-E-N-T-E-M-E-N-T- -V-A- -S-Û-R-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Synonyme de qui va piano, va sano.

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How do you spell "qui va lentement va sûrement"?
"qui va lentement va sûrement" is spelled Q-U-I- -V-A- -L-E-N-T-E-M-E-N-T- -V-A- -S-Û-R-E-M-E-N-T.
What does "qui va lentement va sûrement" mean?
As a phrase, "qui va lentement va sûrement" means: Synonyme de qui va piano, va sano.
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"qui va lentement va sûrement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “qui va lentement va sûrement”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is Q-U-I- -V-A- -L-E-N-T-E-M-E-N-T- -V-A- -S-Û-R-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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