you can say that again
The verdict
“you can say that again” 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
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Locution indiquant que celui qui parle est parfaitement d’accord avec son interlocuteur, et équivalant aux locutions françaises et comment, c’est le cas de le dire, c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | you can say that again |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ˈjuː kən seɪ ˈðæt ə.ˈɡɛn\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “you can say that again” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for you can say that again is 22 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈjuː kən seɪ ˈðæt ə.ˈɡɛn\. 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: "Locution indiquant que celui qui parle est parfaitement d’accord avec son interlocuteur, et équivalant aux locutions françaises et comment, c’est le cas de le dire, c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire...".
No misspelling variants are generated for you can say that again 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 you can say that again, spelled Y-O-U- -C-A-N- -S-A-Y- -T-H-A-T- -A-G-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Locution indiquant que celui qui parle est parfaitement d’accord avec son interlocuteur, et équivalant aux locutions françaises et comment, c’est le cas de le dire, c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire, je ne vous le fais pas dire (ou je ne te le fais pas dire).
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Using “you can say that again”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Y-O-U- -C-A-N- -S-A-Y- -T-H-A-T- -A-G-A-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈjuː kən seɪ ˈðæt ə.ˈɡɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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