valoir comme un sou
\va.lwaʁ kɔ.m‿œ̃ su\
The verdict
“valoir comme un sou” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Valoir amplement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valoir comme un sou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \va.lwaʁ kɔ.m‿œ̃ su\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “valoir comme un sou” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for valoir comme un sou is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.lwaʁ kɔ.m‿œ̃ su\. 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: "Valoir amplement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for valoir comme un sou 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 valoir comme un sou, spelled V-A-L-O-I-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -S-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Valoir amplement.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is V-A-L-O-I-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -S-O-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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