au téléphone
\o te.le.fɔn\
The verdict
“au téléphone” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Téléphoniquement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-au-telephone · au téléphone · French
au téléphone · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | au téléphone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \o te.le.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « au téléphone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
au téléphone is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \o te.le.fɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Téléphoniquement.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for au téléphone in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is au téléphone, spelled A-U- -T-É-L-É-P-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Téléphoniquement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how au téléphone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Réglez votre téléphone sur le volume sonore minimum. Si vous travaillez dans un environnement bruyant et êtes chargé de répondre au téléphone, peut-être serez-vous constamment obligé d’augmenter le volume.
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.