au-dedans de
\o də.dɑ̃ də\
The verdict
“au-dedans de” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a preposition - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dedans, au sein de, à l’intérieur de.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | au-dedans de |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \o də.dɑ̃ də\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “au-dedans de” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for au-dedans de is 12 letters long, classified as a preposition, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o də.dɑ̃ də\. 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: "Dedans, au sein de, à l’intérieur de.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for au-dedans de, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is au-dedans de, spelled A-U---D-E-D-A-N-S- -D-E.
Definition
- 1Dedans, au sein de, à l’intérieur de.
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-U---D-E-D-A-N-S- -D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \o də.dɑ̃ də\ (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.