sages comme des portraits
The verdict
“sages comme des portraits” 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
- 25
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pluriel de sage comme un portrait.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sages comme des portraits |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \saʒ kɔ.m‿œ̃ pɔʁ.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sages comme des portraits” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sages comme des portraits is 25 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: "Pluriel de sage comme un portrait.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sages comme des portraits 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 sages comme des portraits, spelled S-A-G-E-S- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-E-S- -P-O-R-T-R-A-I-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sage comme un portrait.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-G-E-S- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-E-S- -P-O-R-T-R-A-I-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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