sans foi ni loi
\sɑ̃ fwa ni lwa\
The verdict
“sans foi ni loi” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est guidé par aucune morale ; qui a des activités et revenus inavouables.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sans-foi-ni-loi · sans foi ni loi · French
sans foi ni loi · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sans foi ni loi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɑ̃ fwa ni lwa\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sans foi ni loi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sans foi ni loi is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɑ̃ fwa ni lwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui n’est guidé par aucune morale ; qui a des activités et revenus inavouables.".
sans foi ni loi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sans foi ni loi, spelled S-A-N-S- -F-O-I- -N-I- -L-O-I.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est guidé par aucune morale ; qui a des activités et revenus inavouables.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sans foi ni loi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le film, entièrement concocté par l’esprit tordu et sans foi ni loi de Lew, était proprement scandaleux.
Ce Santa picole, vomit sur les gens, a perdu le feu sacré pour sa mission et n’est pas le dernier à aller à la baston en cas de besoin. Et besoin il y a, quand il se retrouve coincé dans une immense demeure avec une famille riche et des kidnappeurs sans foi ni loi menés par John Leguizamo.
Synonyms
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.