à un moment donné

/\a œ̃ mo.mɑ̃ dɔ.ne\/ adv

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Language

French

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à un moment donné is anFrenchadv. It means: À un certain moment (indéterminé). Pronounced \a œ̃ mo.mɑ̃ dɔ.ne\.

Key facts for à un moment donné
PropertyValue
Headwordà un moment donné
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a œ̃ mo.mɑ̃ dɔ.ne\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à un moment donné is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à un moment donné is 17 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a œ̃ mo.mɑ̃ dɔ.ne\. 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: "À un certain moment (indéterminé).".

No misspelling variants are generated for à un moment donné in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 un moment donné, spelled À- -U-N- -M-O-M-E-N-T- -D-O-N-N-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    À un certain moment (indéterminé).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à un moment donné"?
"à un moment donné" is spelled À- -U-N- -M-O-M-E-N-T- -D-O-N-N-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a œ̃ mo.mɑ̃ dɔ.ne\.
What does "à un moment donné" mean?
As an adv, "à un moment donné" means: À un certain moment (indéterminé).
How do you pronounce "à un moment donné"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à un moment donné" is \a œ̃ mo.mɑ̃ dɔ.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à un moment donné" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.