à l’envi de

/\a l‿ɑ̃.vi də\/ adv

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à l’envi de is anFrenchadv. It means: En émulation, en rivalité avec. Pronounced \a l‿ɑ̃.vi də\.

Key facts for à l’envi de
PropertyValue
Headwordà l’envi de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a l‿ɑ̃.vi də\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à l’envi 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’envi de is 11 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a l‿ɑ̃.vi 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: "En émulation, en rivalité avec.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à l’envi 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’envi de, spelled À- -L-’-E-N-V-I- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    En émulation, en rivalité avec.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à l’envi de"?
"à l’envi de" is spelled À- -L-’-E-N-V-I- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a l‿ɑ̃.vi də\.
What does "à l’envi de" mean?
As an adv, "à l’envi de" means: En émulation, en rivalité avec.
How do you pronounce "à l’envi de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à l’envi de" is \a l‿ɑ̃.vi də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à l’envi de" 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.