vieux comme mes robes

/\vjø kɔm me ʁɔb\/ adj

The verdict

“vieux comme mes robes” 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
21
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Très vieux ; très ancien.

Key facts for vieux comme mes robes
PropertyValue
Headwordvieux comme mes robes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\vjø kɔm me ʁɔb\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “vieux comme mes robes” sits in French frequency

vieux comme mes robes falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vieux comme mes robes is 21 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjø kɔm me ʁɔb\. 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: "Très vieux ; très ancien.".

No misspelling variants are generated for vieux comme mes robes 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 mes robes, spelled V-I-E-U-X- -C-O-M-M-E- -M-E-S- -R-O-B-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Très vieux ; très ancien.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vieux comme mes robes"?
"vieux comme mes robes" is spelled V-I-E-U-X- -C-O-M-M-E- -M-E-S- -R-O-B-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \vjø kɔm me ʁɔb\.
What does "vieux comme mes robes" mean?
As an adjective, "vieux comme mes robes" means: Très vieux ; très ancien.
How do you pronounce "vieux comme mes robes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vieux comme mes robes" is \vjø kɔm me ʁɔb\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vieux comme mes robes" come from?
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Using “vieux comme mes robes”

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-E-S- -R-O-B-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \vjø kɔm me ʁɔb\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.