à la discrétion de

/\a la dis.kʁe.sjɔ̃ də\/ prep

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

à la discrétion de is aFrenchprep. It means: Par la volonté de ; selon le choix de. Pronounced \a la dis.kʁe.sjɔ̃ də\.

Key facts for à la discrétion de
PropertyValue
Headwordà la discrétion de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\a la dis.kʁe.sjɔ̃ də\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à la discrétion 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 la discrétion de is 18 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a la dis.kʁe.sjɔ̃ 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: "Par la volonté de ; selon le choix de.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à la discrétion 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 la discrétion de, spelled À- -L-A- -D-I-S-C-R-É-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

  1. 1
    Par la volonté de ; selon le choix de.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à la discrétion de"?
"à la discrétion de" is spelled À- -L-A- -D-I-S-C-R-É-T-I-O-N- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a la dis.kʁe.sjɔ̃ də\.
What does "à la discrétion de" mean?
As a prep, "à la discrétion de" means: Par la volonté de ; selon le choix de.
How do you pronounce "à la discrétion de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à la discrétion de" is \a la dis.kʁe.sjɔ̃ də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à la discrétion 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.