a primièra vista

/\a pɾiˈmjɛɾo̯ ˈβisto̯\/ adv

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

a primièra vista is anFrenchadv. It means: À première vue. Pronounced \a pɾiˈmjɛɾo̯ ˈβisto̯\.

Key facts for a primièra vista
PropertyValue
Headworda primièra vista
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a pɾiˈmjɛɾo̯ ˈβisto̯\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

a primièra vista 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 a primièra vista is 16 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a pɾiˈmjɛɾo̯ ˈβisto̯\. 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: "À première vue.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for a primièra vista 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 a primièra vista, spelled A- -P-R-I-M-I-È-R-A- -V-I-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    À première vue.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "a primièra vista"?
"a primièra vista" is spelled A- -P-R-I-M-I-È-R-A- -V-I-S-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is \a pɾiˈmjɛɾo̯ ˈβisto̯\.
What does "a primièra vista" mean?
As an adv, "a primièra vista" means: À première vue.
How do you pronounce "a primièra vista"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "a primièra vista" is \a pɾiˈmjɛɾo̯ ˈβisto̯\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "a primièra vista" 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.