une de perdue, dix de retrouvées
\yn də pɛʁ.dy dis də ʁə.tʁu.ve\
The verdict
“une de perdue, dix de retrouvées” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 32
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Une chose perdue à laquelle on accorde beaucoup de valeur est en fait rapidement remplacée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | une de perdue, dix de retrouvées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \yn də pɛʁ.dy dis də ʁə.tʁu.ve\ |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “une de perdue, dix de retrouvées” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for une de perdue, dix de retrouvées is 32 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \yn də pɛʁ.dy dis də ʁə.tʁu.ve\. 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: "Une chose perdue à laquelle on accorde beaucoup de valeur est en fait rapidement remplacée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for une de perdue, dix de retrouvées 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 une de perdue, dix de retrouvées, spelled U-N-E- -D-E- -P-E-R-D-U-E-,- -D-I-X- -D-E- -R-E-T-R-O-U-V-É-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Une chose perdue à laquelle on accorde beaucoup de valeur est en fait rapidement remplacée.
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- The one correct French spelling is U-N-E- -D-E- -P-E-R-D-U-E-,- -D-I-X- -D-E- -R-E-T-R-O-U-V-É-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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