vieux comme les rues
The verdict
“vieux comme les rues” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Qui existe depuis très longtemps.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vieux comme les rues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vjø kɔm le ʁy\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vieux comme les rues” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vieux comme les rues is 20 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjø kɔm le ʁy\. 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: "Qui existe depuis très longtemps.".
No misspelling variants are generated for vieux comme les rues 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 vieux comme les rues, spelled V-I-E-U-X- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-E-S- -R-U-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui existe depuis très longtemps.
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Using “vieux comme les rues”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-I-E-U-X- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-E-S- -R-U-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \vjø kɔm le ʁy\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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