à plus forte raison

/\a ply fɔʁ.tə ʁɛ.zɔ̃\/ adv

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

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à plus forte raison is anFrenchadv. It means: Avec d’autant plus de sujet ; par un motif d’autant plus fort. Pronounced \a ply fɔʁ.tə ʁɛ.zɔ̃\.

Key facts for à plus forte raison
PropertyValue
Headwordà plus forte raison
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a ply fɔʁ.tə ʁɛ.zɔ̃\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à plus forte raison 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 plus forte raison is 19 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a ply fɔʁ.tə ʁɛ.zɔ̃\. 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: "Avec d’autant plus de sujet ; par un motif d’autant plus fort.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à plus forte raison 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 plus forte raison, spelled À- -P-L-U-S- -F-O-R-T-E- -R-A-I-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Avec d’autant plus de sujet ; par un motif d’autant plus fort.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à plus forte raison"?
"à plus forte raison" is spelled À- -P-L-U-S- -F-O-R-T-E- -R-A-I-S-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a ply fɔʁ.tə ʁɛ.zɔ̃\.
What does "à plus forte raison" mean?
As an adv, "à plus forte raison" means: Avec d’autant plus de sujet ; par un motif d’autant plus fort.
How do you pronounce "à plus forte raison"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à plus forte raison" is \a ply fɔʁ.tə ʁɛ.zɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à plus forte raison" 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.