à des fins de

/\a de fɛ̃ də\/ prep

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à des fins de is aFrenchprep. It means: Pour. Pronounced \a de fɛ̃ də\.

Key facts for à des fins de
PropertyValue
Headwordà des fins de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\a de fɛ̃ də\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à des fins de is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à des fins de is 13 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a de fɛ̃ də\. 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: "Pour.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à des fins de 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 des fins de, spelled À- -D-E-S- -F-I-N-S- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pour.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à des fins de"?
"à des fins de" is spelled À- -D-E-S- -F-I-N-S- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a de fɛ̃ də\.
What does "à des fins de" mean?
As a prep, "à des fins de" means: Pour.
How do you pronounce "à des fins de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à des fins de" is \a de fɛ̃ də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à des fins de" come from?
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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.