à cet instant
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
à cet instant is anFrenchadv. It means: Aussitôt ; à ce moment-là. Pronounced \a sɛ.t‿ɛ̃s.tɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à cet instant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \a sɛ.t‿ɛ̃s.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for à cet instant is 13 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a sɛ.t‿ɛ̃s.tɑ̃\. 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: "Aussitôt ; à ce moment-là.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à cet instant in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French 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 French form is à cet instant, spelled À- -C-E-T- -I-N-S-T-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aussitôt ; à ce moment-là.
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