à grand renfort de

/\a ɡʁɑ̃ ʁɑ̃.fɔʁ də\/ prep

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

à grand renfort de is aFrenchprep. It means: À l’aide d’un grand nombre, d’une grande quantité de. Pronounced \a ɡʁɑ̃ ʁɑ̃.fɔʁ də\.

Key facts for à grand renfort de
PropertyValue
Headwordà grand renfort de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\a ɡʁɑ̃ ʁɑ̃.fɔʁ də\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à grand renfort 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 grand renfort de is 18 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a ɡʁɑ̃ ʁɑ̃.fɔʁ 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: "À l’aide d’un grand nombre, d’une grande quantité de.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à grand renfort 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 grand renfort de, spelled À- -G-R-A-N-D- -R-E-N-F-O-R-T- -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 l’aide d’un grand nombre, d’une grande quantité de.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à grand renfort de"?
"à grand renfort de" is spelled À- -G-R-A-N-D- -R-E-N-F-O-R-T- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a ɡʁɑ̃ ʁɑ̃.fɔʁ də\.
What does "à grand renfort de" mean?
As a prep, "à grand renfort de" means: À l’aide d’un grand nombre, d’une grande quantité de.
How do you pronounce "à grand renfort de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à grand renfort de" is \a ɡʁɑ̃ ʁɑ̃.fɔʁ də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à grand renfort de" come from?
"à grand renfort de" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.