rien ne sert de courir ; il faut partir à point

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rien ne sert de courir ; il faut partir à point is 47 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁjɛ̃ nə sɛʁ də ku.ʁiʁ il fo paʁ.ti.ʁ‿a pwɛ̃\. 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: "On ne rattrape pas le temps perdu, même en se précipitant au dernier moment.".

No misspelling variants are generated for rien ne sert de courir ; il faut partir à point 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 rien ne sert de courir ; il faut partir à point, spelled R-I-E-N- -N-E- -S-E-R-T- -D-E- -C-O-U-R-I-R- -;- -I-L- -F-A-U-T- -P-A-R-T-I-R- -À- -P-O-I-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.