aller droit au but

/\a.le dʁwa.t‿o byt\/ verb

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French

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aller droit au but is aFrenchverb. It means: Aller directement à la fin, dire franchement les choses. Pronounced \a.le dʁwa.t‿o byt\.

Key facts for aller droit au but
PropertyValue
Headwordaller droit au but
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.le dʁwa.t‿o byt\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

aller droit au but 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 aller droit au but is 18 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.le dʁwa.t‿o byt\. 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 directement à la fin, dire franchement les choses.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for aller droit au but 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 aller droit au but, spelled A-L-L-E-R- -D-R-O-I-T- -A-U- -B-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Aller directement à la fin, dire franchement les choses.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aller droit au but"?
"aller droit au but" is spelled A-L-L-E-R- -D-R-O-I-T- -A-U- -B-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.le dʁwa.t‿o byt\.
What does "aller droit au but" mean?
As a verb, "aller droit au but" means: Aller directement à la fin, dire franchement les choses.
How do you pronounce "aller droit au but"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aller droit au but" is \a.le dʁwa.t‿o byt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aller droit au but" 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.