à toute vitesse
\a tut vi.tɛs\
The verdict
“à toute vitesse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très vite ; sans perdre de temps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-a-toute-vitesse · à toute vitesse · French
à toute vitesse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "À" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à toute vitesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a tut vi.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
à toute vitesse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \a tut vi.tɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Très vite ; sans perdre de temps.".
Zero misspellings are on record for à toute vitesse in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is à toute vitesse, spelled À- -T-O-U-T-E- -V-I-T-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Très vite ; sans perdre de temps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how à toute vitesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus loin, une vision rapide de chevaux lancés à toute vitesse, de selles rouges et de vêtements blancs envolés dans un nuage de poussière : des chasseurs à la poursuite de quelque gibier, lièvre ou gazelle probablement.
Après le brash vinrent des plaques lâches, puis des grands floes ; la manœuvre demandait de la ruse et de la force, mais les accumulations franchies, nous traversions à toute vitesse de larges espaces d’eau libre.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.