au temps pour moi
\o tɑ̃ puʁ mwa\
The verdict
“au temps pour moi” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Formule d’excuse qui exprime la concession d’une erreur que l’on a commise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | au temps pour moi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \o tɑ̃ puʁ mwa\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “au temps pour moi” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for au temps pour moi is 17 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o tɑ̃ puʁ mwa\. 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: "Formule d’excuse qui exprime la concession d’une erreur que l’on a commise.".
No misspelling variants are generated for au temps pour moi 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 temps pour moi, spelled A-U- -T-E-M-P-S- -P-O-U-R- -M-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Formule d’excuse qui exprime la concession d’une erreur que l’on a commise.
Synonyms
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Using “au temps pour moi”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-U- -T-E-M-P-S- -P-O-U-R- -M-O-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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