à dépêche-compagnon
\a de.pɛʃ kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃\
The verdict
“à dépêche-compagnon” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vite et négligemment, en ne cherchant qu’à finir vite, en négligeant l’ouvrage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à dépêche-compagnon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a de.pɛʃ kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “à dépêche-compagnon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for à dépêche-compagnon is 19 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a de.pɛʃ kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃\. 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 generated misspelling entries exist for à dépêche-compagnon in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is à dépêche-compagnon, spelled À- -D-É-P-Ê-C-H-E---C-O-M-P-A-G-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Vite et négligemment, en ne cherchant qu’à finir vite, en négligeant l’ouvrage.
- 2Sans quartier, ni pitié.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “à dépêche-compagnon”
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- The one correct French spelling is À- -D-É-P-Ê-C-H-E---C-O-M-P-A-G-N-O-N - 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.