aller au petit coin
The verdict
“aller au petit coin” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Aller aux toilettes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aller au petit coin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.le o pə.ti kwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aller au petit coin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aller au petit coin is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.le o pə.ti kwɛ̃\. 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: "Aller aux toilettes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for aller au petit coin 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 aller au petit coin, spelled A-L-L-E-R- -A-U- -P-E-T-I-T- -C-O-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aller aux toilettes.
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.
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Using “aller au petit coin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-L-L-E-R- -A-U- -P-E-T-I-T- -C-O-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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