qui veut la fin veut les moyens
\ki vø la fɛ̃ vø le mwa.jɛ̃\
The verdict
“qui veut la fin veut les moyens” 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
- 31
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Pour atteindre son but, il faut s’en donner les moyens, et cela même s’ils sont dégradants ou immoraux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | qui veut la fin veut les moyens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ki vø la fɛ̃ vø le mwa.jɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “qui veut la fin veut les moyens” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for qui veut la fin veut les moyens is 31 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki vø la fɛ̃ vø le mwa.jɛ̃\. 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: "Pour atteindre son but, il faut s’en donner les moyens, et cela même s’ils sont dégradants ou immoraux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for qui veut la fin veut les moyens 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 veut la fin veut les moyens, spelled Q-U-I- -V-E-U-T- -L-A- -F-I-N- -V-E-U-T- -L-E-S- -M-O-Y-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pour atteindre son but, il faut s’en donner les moyens, et cela même s’ils sont dégradants ou immoraux.
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- -V-E-U-T- -L-A- -F-I-N- -V-E-U-T- -L-E-S- -M-O-Y-E-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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