à moins que

/[a mwɛ̃ kə]/ phrase

Letters

11 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à moins que is aSpanishphrase. It means: A menos que o a no ser que. Pronounced [a mwɛ̃ kə].

Key facts for à moins que
PropertyValue
Headwordà moins que
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[a mwɛ̃ kə]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à moins que is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for à moins que is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [a mwɛ̃ kə]. 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: "A menos que o a no ser que.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à moins que in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Spanish form is à moins que, spelled À- -M-O-I-N-S- -Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    A menos que o a no ser que.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à moins que"?
"à moins que" is spelled À- -M-O-I-N-S- -Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is [a mwɛ̃ kə].
What does "à moins que" mean?
As a phrase, "à moins que" means: A menos que o a no ser que.
How do you pronounce "à moins que"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à moins que" is [a mwɛ̃ kə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à moins que" come from?
"à moins que" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.