à l’attention de
Letters
16 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
à l’attention de is aFrenchprep. It means: Désigne le destinataire final d’un courrier, colis ou e-mail. Cette mention permet de s’adresser directement à la bonne personne, en évitant les circuits intermédiaires (hiérarchie, secrétariat…). Pronounced \a l‿a.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃ də\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à l’attention de |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | \a l‿a.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃ də\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for à l’attention de is 16 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a l‿a.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃ 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 l’attention 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’attention de, spelled À- -L-’-A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Désigne le destinataire final d’un courrier, colis ou e-mail. Cette mention permet de s’adresser directement à la bonne personne, en évitant les circuits intermédiaires (hiérarchie, secrétariat…).
- 2Désigne le destinataire d’un propos.
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