val pas un damne
The verdict
“val pas un damne” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ça ne vaut pas un kopeck, ça n’a pas de grande valeur, ça ne vaut rien.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | val pas un damne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \βal pas un ˈdanne\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “val pas un damne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for val pas un damne is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \βal pas un ˈdanne\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for val pas un damne 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 pas un damne, spelled V-A-L- -P-A-S- -U-N- -D-A-M-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ça ne vaut pas un kopeck, ça n’a pas de grande valeur, ça ne vaut rien.
- 2Il ne vaut rien.
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Using “val pas un damne”
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- The one correct French spelling is V-A-L- -P-A-S- -U-N- -D-A-M-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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