à propos de

/\a pʁo.po də\/ prep

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à propos de is aFrenchprep. It means: Au sujet de ; en ce qui concerne. Pronounced \a pʁo.po də\.

Key facts for à propos de
PropertyValue
Headwordà propos de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\a pʁo.po də\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à propos 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 propos de is 11 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a pʁo.po 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: "Au sujet de ; en ce qui concerne.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à propos 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 propos de, spelled À- -P-R-O-P-O-S- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Au sujet de ; en ce qui concerne.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à propos de"?
"à propos de" is spelled À- -P-R-O-P-O-S- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a pʁo.po də\.
What does "à propos de" mean?
As a prep, "à propos de" means: Au sujet de ; en ce qui concerne.
How do you pronounce "à propos de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à propos de" is \a pʁo.po də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à propos 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.