valoir le lard du chat
\val.waʁ lə laʁ dy ʃa\
The verdict
“valoir le lard du chat” 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
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Valoir très cher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valoir le lard du chat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \val.waʁ lə laʁ dy ʃa\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “valoir le lard du chat” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for valoir le lard du chat is 22 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \val.waʁ lə laʁ dy ʃa\. 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 très cher.".
No misspelling variants are generated for valoir le lard du chat 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 le lard du chat, spelled V-A-L-O-I-R- -L-E- -L-A-R-D- -D-U- -C-H-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Valoir très cher.
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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Using “valoir le lard du chat”
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- The one correct French spelling is V-A-L-O-I-R- -L-E- -L-A-R-D- -D-U- -C-H-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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