à temps plein

/\a tɑ̃ plɛ̃\/ adv

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

à temps plein is anFrenchadv. It means: Variante de à plein temps. Pronounced \a tɑ̃ plɛ̃\.

Key facts for à temps plein
PropertyValue
Headwordà temps plein
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a tɑ̃ plɛ̃\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à temps plein 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 temps plein is 13 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a tɑ̃ plɛ̃\. 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: "Variante de à plein temps.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à temps plein 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 temps plein, spelled À- -T-E-M-P-S- -P-L-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de à plein temps.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à temps plein"?
"à temps plein" is spelled À- -T-E-M-P-S- -P-L-E-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a tɑ̃ plɛ̃\.
What does "à temps plein" mean?
As an adv, "à temps plein" means: Variante de à plein temps.
How do you pronounce "à temps plein"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à temps plein" is \a tɑ̃ plɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à temps plein" come from?
"à temps plein" 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.