val mai una arencada sus lo pan qu’un colomb que vòla
The verdict
“val mai una arencada sus lo pan qu’un colomb que vòla” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: Un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l’auras, (littéralement : mieux vaut un hareng salé sur le pain qu’un pigeon qui vole).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | val mai una arencada sus lo pan qu’un colomb que vòla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \βal maj ˈy.n‿aɾenˈkaðo̯ sus lu pan k‿yn ku.ˈlumb ke ˈβɔ.lo̯\ |
| Letters | 53 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “val mai una arencada sus lo pan qu’un colomb que vòla” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for val mai una arencada sus lo pan qu’un colomb que vòla is 53 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \βal maj ˈy.n‿aɾenˈkaðo̯ sus lu pan k‿yn ku.ˈlumb ke ˈβɔ.lo̯\. 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: "Un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l’auras, (littéralement : mieux vaut un hareng salé sur le pain qu’un pigeon qui vole).".
No misspelling variants are generated for val mai una arencada sus lo pan qu’un colomb que vòla 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 val mai una arencada sus lo pan qu’un colomb que vòla, spelled V-A-L- -M-A-I- -U-N-A- -A-R-E-N-C-A-D-A- -S-U-S- -L-O- -P-A-N- -Q-U-’-U-N- -C-O-L-O-M-B- -Q-U-E- -V-Ò-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l’auras, (littéralement : mieux vaut un hareng salé sur le pain qu’un pigeon qui vole).
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-A-L- -M-A-I- -U-N-A- -A-R-E-N-C-A-D-A- -S-U-S- -L-O- -P-A-N- -Q-U-’-U-N- -C-O-L-O-M-B- -Q-U-E- -V-Ò-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \βal maj ˈy.n‿aɾenˈkaðo̯ sus lu pan k‿yn ku.ˈlumb ke ˈβɔ.lo̯\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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