valer pas quaranta sòus
The verdict
“valer pas quaranta sòus” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ne pas valoir un clou, n’avoir aucune valeur (littéralement : ne pas valoir quarante sous ).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valer pas quaranta sòus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \βaˈle pas ka.ˈɾan.to̯ ˈsɔws\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “valer pas quaranta sòus” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for valer pas quaranta sòus is 23 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \βaˈle pas ka.ˈɾan.to̯ ˈsɔws\. 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: "Ne pas valoir un clou, n’avoir aucune valeur (littéralement : ne pas valoir quarante sous ).".
No misspelling variants are generated for valer pas quaranta sòus 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 valer pas quaranta sòus, spelled V-A-L-E-R- -P-A-S- -Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-A- -S-Ò-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne pas valoir un clou, n’avoir aucune valeur (littéralement : ne pas valoir quarante sous ).
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Using “valer pas quaranta sòus”
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- The one correct French spelling is V-A-L-E-R- -P-A-S- -Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-A- -S-Ò-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \βaˈle pas ka.ˈɾan.to̯ ˈsɔws\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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