à long terme

/\a lɔ̃ tɛʁm\/ adj

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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à long terme is anFrenchadj. It means: Situé dans la perspective d’une échéance relativement éloignée. Pronounced \a lɔ̃ tɛʁm\.

Key facts for à long terme
PropertyValue
Headwordà long terme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\a lɔ̃ tɛʁm\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à long terme 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 long terme is 12 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a lɔ̃ tɛʁm\. 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: "Situé dans la perspective d’une échéance relativement éloignée.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à long terme 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 long terme, spelled À- -L-O-N-G- -T-E-R-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Situé dans la perspective d’une échéance relativement éloignée.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à long terme"?
"à long terme" is spelled À- -L-O-N-G- -T-E-R-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a lɔ̃ tɛʁm\.
What does "à long terme" mean?
As an adj, "à long terme" means: Situé dans la perspective d’une échéance relativement éloignée.
How do you pronounce "à long terme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à long terme" is \a lɔ̃ tɛʁm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à long terme" come from?
"à long terme" 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.