qui voit Ouessant voit son sang
\ki vwa we.sɑ̃ vwa sɔ̃ sɑ̃\
The verdict
“qui voit Ouessant voit son sang” 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) — Phrase poétique toute faite illustrant les conditions de navigation difficiles en mer d’Iroise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | qui voit Ouessant voit son sang |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ki vwa we.sɑ̃ vwa sɔ̃ sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “qui voit Ouessant voit son sang” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for qui voit Ouessant voit son sang is 31 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki vwa we.sɑ̃ vwa sɔ̃ sɑ̃\. 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: "Phrase poétique toute faite illustrant les conditions de navigation difficiles en mer d’Iroise.".
No misspelling variants are generated for qui voit Ouessant voit son sang 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 voit Ouessant voit son sang, spelled Q-U-I- -V-O-I-T- -O-U-E-S-S-A-N-T- -V-O-I-T- -S-O-N- -S-A-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Phrase poétique toute faite illustrant les conditions de navigation difficiles en mer d’Iroise.
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-O-I-T- -O-U-E-S-S-A-N-T- -V-O-I-T- -S-O-N- -S-A-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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