after all

adv

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

after all is anFrenchadv. It means: Après tout, en effet.

Key facts for after all
PropertyValue
Headwordafter all
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

after all 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 after all is 9 letters long, classified as anadv. 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: "Après tout, en effet.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for after all 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 after all, spelled A-F-T-E-R- -A-L-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Après tout, en effet.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "after all"?
"after all" is spelled A-F-T-E-R- -A-L-L.
What does "after all" mean?
As an adv, "after all" means: Après tout, en effet.
What language does "after all" 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.