à tire de plume

/\a tiʁ də plym\/ adv

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à tire de plume is anFrenchadv. It means: En écrivant aussi vite que la plume peut aller. (Littré) Pronounced \a tiʁ də plym\.

Key facts for à tire de plume
PropertyValue
Headwordà tire de plume
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a tiʁ də plym\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à tire de plume 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 tire de plume is 15 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a tiʁ də plym\. 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: "En écrivant aussi vite que la plume peut aller. (Littré)".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à tire de plume 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 tire de plume, spelled À- -T-I-R-E- -D-E- -P-L-U-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    En écrivant aussi vite que la plume peut aller. (Littré)

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à tire de plume"?
"à tire de plume" is spelled À- -T-I-R-E- -D-E- -P-L-U-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a tiʁ də plym\.
What does "à tire de plume" mean?
As an adv, "à tire de plume" means: En écrivant aussi vite que la plume peut aller. (Littré)
How do you pronounce "à tire de plume"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à tire de plume" is \a tiʁ də plym\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à tire de plume" 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.