you don’t say
The verdict
“you don’t say” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an interjection — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Vraiment ? Sérieusement ? Pas possible ! Sans blague ? Note d’usage : Parfois ironique après une affirmation jugée évidente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | you don’t say |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ju ˌdoʊnt ˈseɪ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “you don’t say” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for you don’t say is 13 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ju ˌdoʊnt ˈseɪ\. 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: "Vraiment ? Sérieusement ? Pas possible ! Sans blague ? Note d’usage : Parfois ironique après une affirmation jugée évidente.".
No misspelling variants are generated for you don’t say 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 don’t say, spelled Y-O-U- -D-O-N-’-T- -S-A-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vraiment ? Sérieusement ? Pas possible ! Sans blague ? Note d’usage : Parfois ironique après une affirmation jugée évidente.
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Using “you don’t say”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Y-O-U- -D-O-N-’-T- -S-A-Y — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ju ˌdoʊnt ˈseɪ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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