aller droit au but
\a.le dʁwa.t‿o byt\
The verdict
“aller droit au but” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Aller directement à la fin, dire franchement les choses.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aller droit au but |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.le dʁwa.t‿o byt\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aller droit au but” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aller droit au but is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, 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.".
aller droit au but has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. 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.
Definition
- 1Aller directement à la fin, dire franchement les choses.
This word in other languages
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 droit au but”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-L-L-E-R- -D-R-O-I-T- -A-U- -B-U-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.le dʁwa.t‿o byt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.