ze trekken om het langst

proverb

The verdict

“ze trekken om het langst” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proverb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
24
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ils veulent tous les deux obtenir le meilleur avantage, la plus grande part.

Key facts for ze trekken om het langst
PropertyValue
Headwordze trekken om het langst
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProverb
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “ze trekken om het langst” sits in French frequency

ze trekken om het langst 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 ze trekken om het langst is 24 letters long, classified as a proverb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for ze trekken om het langst 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 ze trekken om het langst, spelled Z-E- -T-R-E-K-K-E-N- -O-M- -H-E-T- -L-A-N-G-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ils veulent tous les deux obtenir le meilleur avantage, la plus grande part.
  2. 2
    Ils veulent voir qui tiendra le plus longtemps et gagnera donc.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ze trekken om het langst"?
"ze trekken om het langst" is spelled Z-E- -T-R-E-K-K-E-N- -O-M- -H-E-T- -L-A-N-G-S-T.
What does "ze trekken om het langst" mean?
As a proverb, "ze trekken om het langst" means: Ils veulent tous les deux obtenir le meilleur avantage, la plus grande part.
What language does "ze trekken om het langst" come from?
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Using “ze trekken om het langst”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is Z-E- -T-R-E-K-K-E-N- -O-M- -H-E-T- -L-A-N-G-S-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.