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je ne sais qua

je ne sais qua is the misspelling of je ne sais quoi.

Meaning of je ne sais quoi

Noun

je ne sais quoi (plural je ne sais quoi)

  1. An indefinable quality that makes something distinctive or attractive.
    • She has a certain je ne sais quoi about her.

Origin of je ne sais qua

Probably a simple misspelling. Possibly from conflating quoi with the qua in sine qua non.

Questions about je ne sais qua

What is je ne sais qua the misspelling of?
Je ne sais qua is the misspelling of je ne sais quoi.

Words near je ne sais qua in the dictionary

  1. JDSNs
  2. JDT
  3. JDWP
  4. JE
  5. Je Khenpo
  6. je ne sais qua
  7. je ne sais quoi
  8. Jeacock
  9. Jeadine
  10. Jeaffreson
  11. jeah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: je ne sais qua (page history and authors); je ne sais quoi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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