sage comme un portrait
The verdict
“sage comme un portrait” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Qui n’est pas turbulent, qui est très docile et obéissant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sage comme un portrait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \saʒ kɔ.m‿œ̃ pɔʁ.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sage comme un portrait” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sage comme un portrait is 22 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \saʒ kɔ.m‿œ̃ pɔʁ.tʁɛ\. 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: "Qui n’est pas turbulent, qui est très docile et obéissant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sage comme un portrait 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 sage comme un portrait, spelled S-A-G-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -P-O-R-T-R-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas turbulent, qui est très docile et obéissant.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-G-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -P-O-R-T-R-A-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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