apporter sa pierre à l’édifice
\a.pɔʁ.te sa pjɛ.ʁ‿a l‿e.di.fis\
The verdict
“apporter sa pierre à l’édifice” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 30
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contribuer avec ses propres moyens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apporter-sa-pierre-a-l-e · apporter sa pierre à l’édifice · French
apporter sa pierre à l’édifice · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 30 letters
- VOW-12 12 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apporter sa pierre à l’édifice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pɔʁ.te sa pjɛ.ʁ‿a l‿e.di.fis\ |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apporter sa pierre à l’édifice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apporter sa pierre à l’édifice is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pɔʁ.te sa pjɛ.ʁ‿a l‿e.di.fis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Contribuer avec ses propres moyens.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for apporter sa pierre à l’édifice, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is apporter sa pierre à l’édifice, spelled A-P-P-O-R-T-E-R- -S-A- -P-I-E-R-R-E- -À- -L-’-É-D-I-F-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Contribuer avec ses propres moyens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apporter sa pierre à l’édifice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle espère désormais que la viralité de sa propre vidéo permettra à de nouvelles sources d’apporter leur pierre à l’édifice, et de poursuivre l’enquête.
La panspermie a été remise au goût du jour au 20e siècle par deux chercheurs : Fred Hoyle et Chandra Wickramasinghe. Ces derniers ont apporté leur pierre à l’édifice en élaborant une théorie cousine de la panspermie : la pathospermie.
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.