vieux comme Mathusalem
The verdict
“vieux comme Mathusalem” 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
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Extrêmement âgé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vieux comme Mathusalem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vjø kɔm ma.ty.za.lɛm\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vieux comme Mathusalem” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vieux comme Mathusalem is 22 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjø kɔm ma.ty.za.lɛm\. 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: "Extrêmement âgé.".
No misspelling variants are generated for vieux comme Mathusalem 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 Mathusalem, spelled V-I-E-U-X- -C-O-M-M-E- -M-A-T-H-U-S-A-L-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Extrêmement âgé.
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Using “vieux comme Mathusalem”
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- -M-A-T-H-U-S-A-L-E-M — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \vjø kɔm ma.ty.za.lɛm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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