à l’appui de

/\a l‿a.pɥi də\/ prep

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à l’appui de is aFrenchprep. It means: Pour appuyer. Pronounced \a l‿a.pɥi də\.

Key facts for à l’appui de
PropertyValue
Headwordà l’appui de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\a l‿a.pɥi də\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à l’appui 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 l’appui de is 12 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a l‿a.pɥi 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 appuyer.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à l’appui 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 l’appui de, spelled À- -L-’-A-P-P-U-I- -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 appuyer.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à l’appui de"?
"à l’appui de" is spelled À- -L-’-A-P-P-U-I- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a l‿a.pɥi də\.
What does "à l’appui de" mean?
As a prep, "à l’appui de" means: Pour appuyer.
How do you pronounce "à l’appui de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à l’appui de" is \a l‿a.pɥi də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à l’appui de" come from?
"à l’appui 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.