à grande échelle

/\a ɡʁɑ̃.d‿e.ʃɛl\/ adv

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16 characters

Language

French

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à grande échelle is anFrenchadv. It means: De manière importante, en grand. Pronounced \a ɡʁɑ̃.d‿e.ʃɛl\.

Key facts for à grande échelle
PropertyValue
Headwordà grande échelle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a ɡʁɑ̃.d‿e.ʃɛl\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à grande échelle 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 grande échelle is 16 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a ɡʁɑ̃.d‿e.ʃɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à grande échelle 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 grande échelle, spelled À- -G-R-A-N-D-E- -É-C-H-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    De manière importante, en grand.
  2. 2
    À grande dimension.
  3. 3
    Aux dimensions usuelles par opposition aux échelles mésoscopique et microscopique.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à grande échelle"?
"à grande échelle" is spelled À- -G-R-A-N-D-E- -É-C-H-E-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a ɡʁɑ̃.d‿e.ʃɛl\.
What does "à grande échelle" mean?
As an adv, "à grande échelle" means: De manière importante, en grand.
How do you pronounce "à grande échelle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à grande échelle" is \a ɡʁɑ̃.d‿e.ʃɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à grande échelle" 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.