un malheur ne vient jamais seul

/\œ̃ ma.lœʁ nə vjɛ̃ ʒa.mɛ sœl\/ phrase

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Language

French

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un malheur ne vient jamais seul is aFrenchphrase. It means: Proverbe signifiant que lorsqu’on commence à avoir des ennuis, il est rare que d’autres ne surviennent pas également. C’est ce qu’on appelle communément la « loi des séries ». Pronounced \œ̃ ma.lœʁ nə vjɛ̃ ʒa.mɛ sœl\.

Key facts for un malheur ne vient jamais seul
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Headwordun malheur ne vient jamais seul
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\œ̃ ma.lœʁ nə vjɛ̃ ʒa.mɛ sœl\
Letters31
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

un malheur ne vient jamais seul is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for un malheur ne vient jamais seul is 31 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œ̃ ma.lœʁ nə vjɛ̃ ʒa.mɛ sœl\. 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: "Proverbe signifiant que lorsqu’on commence à avoir des ennuis, il est rare que d’autres ne surviennent pas également. C’est ce qu’on appelle communément la « loi des séries ».".

No misspelling variants are generated for un malheur ne vient jamais seul 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 un malheur ne vient jamais seul, spelled U-N- -M-A-L-H-E-U-R- -N-E- -V-I-E-N-T- -J-A-M-A-I-S- -S-E-U-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Proverbe signifiant que lorsqu’on commence à avoir des ennuis, il est rare que d’autres ne surviennent pas également. C’est ce qu’on appelle communément la « loi des séries ».

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "un malheur ne vient jamais seul"?
"un malheur ne vient jamais seul" is spelled U-N- -M-A-L-H-E-U-R- -N-E- -V-I-E-N-T- -J-A-M-A-I-S- -S-E-U-L. The IPA pronunciation is \œ̃ ma.lœʁ nə vjɛ̃ ʒa.mɛ sœl\.
What does "un malheur ne vient jamais seul" mean?
As a phrase, "un malheur ne vient jamais seul" means: Proverbe signifiant que lorsqu’on commence à avoir des ennuis, il est rare que d’autres ne surviennent pas également. C’est ce qu’on appelle communément la « loi des séries ».
How do you pronounce "un malheur ne vient jamais seul"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "un malheur ne vient jamais seul" is \œ̃ ma.lœʁ nə vjɛ̃ ʒa.mɛ sœl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.