what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
The verdict
“what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 50
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Si la sauce est bonne pour l’oie, elle sera bonne pour le jars : si quelque chose est acceptable pour une personne, elle l'est aussi pour une autre (souvent pour une personne du sexe opposé) ; ce q...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 50 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander is 50 letters long, classified as a phrase. 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: "Si la sauce est bonne pour l’oie, elle sera bonne pour le jars : si quelque chose est acceptable pour une personne, elle l'est aussi pour une autre (souvent pour une personne du sexe opposé) ; ce q...".
No misspelling variants are generated for what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander 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 what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, spelled W-H-A-T-’-S- -S-A-U-C-E- -F-O-R- -T-H-E- -G-O-O-S-E- -I-S- -S-A-U-C-E- -F-O-R- -T-H-E- -G-A-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Si la sauce est bonne pour l’oie, elle sera bonne pour le jars : si quelque chose est acceptable pour une personne, elle l'est aussi pour une autre (souvent pour une personne du sexe opposé) ; ce qui vaut pour l'un vaut pour l'autre.
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- The one correct French spelling is W-H-A-T-’-S- -S-A-U-C-E- -F-O-R- -T-H-E- -G-O-O-S-E- -I-S- -S-A-U-C-E- -F-O-R- -T-H-E- -G-A-N-D-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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