à force de rames

/\a fɔʁs də ʁam\/ adv

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

à force de rames is anFrenchadv. It means: En ramant très vigoureusement. Pronounced \a fɔʁs də ʁam\.

Key facts for à force de rames
PropertyValue
Headwordà force de rames
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a fɔʁs də ʁam\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à force de rames 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 force de rames is 16 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a fɔʁs də ʁam\. 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: "En ramant très vigoureusement.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à force de rames 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 force de rames, spelled À- -F-O-R-C-E- -D-E- -R-A-M-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En ramant très vigoureusement.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à force de rames"?
"à force de rames" is spelled À- -F-O-R-C-E- -D-E- -R-A-M-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a fɔʁs də ʁam\.
What does "à force de rames" mean?
As an adv, "à force de rames" means: En ramant très vigoureusement.
How do you pronounce "à force de rames"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à force de rames" is \a fɔʁs də ʁam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à force de rames" 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.