au-dessous
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
au-dessous is anFrenchadv. It means: Plus bas, en bas. Pronounced \o də.su\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | au-dessous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \o də.su\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for au-dessous is 10 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o də.su\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for au-dessous 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 au-dessous, spelled A-U---D-E-S-S-O-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plus bas, en bas.
- 2À une température inférieure à zéro degré centigrade.
- 3Position d'un comédien qui se trouve placé sur la scène devant un meuble ou un objet vis-à-vis du public.
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