raide comme la justice
\ʁɛd kɔ.m la ʒys.tis\
The verdict
“raide comme la justice” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Très guindé dans son attitude physique, figé dans ses principes moraux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raide comme la justice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɛd kɔ.m la ʒys.tis\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “raide comme la justice” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for raide comme la justice is 22 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛd kɔ.m la ʒys.tis\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for raide comme la justice 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 raide comme la justice, spelled R-A-I-D-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-A- -J-U-S-T-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Très guindé dans son attitude physique, figé dans ses principes moraux.
- 2Complètement ivre.
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 R-A-I-D-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-A- -J-U-S-T-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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