abus de pouvoir
Letters
15 characters
Language
French
word origin
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abus de pouvoir is aFrenchnoun. It means: Situation où une personne exerce une autorité qu'elle détient au-delà de ce qui est prévu, raisonnable ou acceptable pour forcer autrui à faire quelque chose. Pronounced \a.by d(ə) pu.vwaʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abus de pouvoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.by d(ə) pu.vwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for abus de pouvoir is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.by d(ə) pu.vwaʁ\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for abus de pouvoir 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 abus de pouvoir, spelled A-B-U-S- -D-E- -P-O-U-V-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Situation où une personne exerce une autorité qu'elle détient au-delà de ce qui est prévu, raisonnable ou acceptable pour forcer autrui à faire quelque chose.
- 2Acte d’un fonctionnaire qui outrepasse son autorité.
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