sagesse des nations

/\sa.ʒɛs de na.sjɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“sagesse des nations” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
19
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Expression du bon sens universel, qui s’illustre par des proverbes, des maximes, des conseils.

Key facts for sagesse des nations
PropertyValue
Headwordsagesse des nations
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.ʒɛs de na.sjɔ̃\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “sagesse des nations” sits in French frequency

sagesse des nations falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sagesse des nations is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.ʒɛs de na.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Expression du bon sens universel, qui s’illustre par des proverbes, des maximes, des conseils.".

No misspelling variants are generated for sagesse des nations 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 sagesse des nations, spelled S-A-G-E-S-S-E- -D-E-S- -N-A-T-I-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Expression du bon sens universel, qui s’illustre par des proverbes, des maximes, des conseils.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sagesse des nations"?
"sagesse des nations" is spelled S-A-G-E-S-S-E- -D-E-S- -N-A-T-I-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.ʒɛs de na.sjɔ̃\.
What does "sagesse des nations" mean?
As a noun, "sagesse des nations" means: Expression du bon sens universel, qui s’illustre par des proverbes, des maximes, des conseils.
How do you pronounce "sagesse des nations"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sagesse des nations" is \sa.ʒɛs de na.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “sagesse des nations”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is S-A-G-E-S-S-E- -D-E-S- -N-A-T-I-O-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \sa.ʒɛs de na.sjɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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