à deux doigts de

/\a dø dwa də\/ prep

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à deux doigts de is aFrenchprep. It means: À fort peu de distance de quelque chose. Pronounced \a dø dwa də\.

Key facts for à deux doigts de
PropertyValue
Headwordà deux doigts de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\a dø dwa də\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à deux doigts 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 deux doigts de is 16 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a dø dwa də\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à deux doigts 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 deux doigts de, spelled À- -D-E-U-X- -D-O-I-G-T-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
    À fort peu de distance de quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Presque à son objectif.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à deux doigts de"?
"à deux doigts de" is spelled À- -D-E-U-X- -D-O-I-G-T-S- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a dø dwa də\.
What does "à deux doigts de" mean?
As a prep, "à deux doigts de" means: À fort peu de distance de quelque chose.
How do you pronounce "à deux doigts de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à deux doigts de" is \a dø dwa də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à deux doigts 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.