à toute force

/\a tut fɔʁs\/ adv

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à toute force is anFrenchadv. It means: Par toutes sortes de moyens. Pronounced \a tut fɔʁs\.

Key facts for à toute force
PropertyValue
Headwordà toute force
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a tut fɔʁs\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à toute force 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 toute force is 13 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a tut fɔʁs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à toute force 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 toute force, spelled À- -T-O-U-T-E- -F-O-R-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Par toutes sortes de moyens.
  2. 2
    À tout prendre, absolument parlant.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à toute force"?
"à toute force" is spelled À- -T-O-U-T-E- -F-O-R-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a tut fɔʁs\.
What does "à toute force" mean?
As an adv, "à toute force" means: Par toutes sortes de moyens.
How do you pronounce "à toute force"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à toute force" is \a tut fɔʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à toute force" 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.