you only live once
The verdict
“you only live once” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Expression utilisée lorsqu’une personne fait une action dangereuse ou peu utile sans se soucier des conséquences.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | you only live once |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ju ˈoʊn.li ˈlɪv ˈwʌns\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “you only live once” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for you only live once is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ju ˈoʊn.li ˈlɪv ˈwʌns\. 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: "Expression utilisée lorsqu’une personne fait une action dangereuse ou peu utile sans se soucier des conséquences.".
No misspelling variants are generated for you only live once 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 only live once, spelled Y-O-U- -O-N-L-Y- -L-I-V-E- -O-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expression utilisée lorsqu’une personne fait une action dangereuse ou peu utile sans se soucier des conséquences.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Y-O-U- -O-N-L-Y- -L-I-V-E- -O-N-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ju ˈoʊn.li ˈlɪv ˈwʌns\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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