au travers de

/\o tʁa.vɛʁ də\/ prep

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

au travers de is aFrenchprep. It means: En allant d’un bord à l’autre, en traversant. Pronounced \o tʁa.vɛʁ də\.

Key facts for au travers de
PropertyValue
Headwordau travers de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\o tʁa.vɛʁ də\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

au travers de is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for au travers de is 13 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o tʁa.vɛʁ də\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for au travers de 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 travers de, spelled A-U- -T-R-A-V-E-R-S- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En allant d’un bord à l’autre, en traversant.
  2. 2
    Désigne un passage qu’on se fait entre des obstacles, ou en traversant, en pénétrant un obstacle.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "au travers de"?
"au travers de" is spelled A-U- -T-R-A-V-E-R-S- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o tʁa.vɛʁ də\.
What does "au travers de" mean?
As a prep, "au travers de" means: En allant d’un bord à l’autre, en traversant.
How do you pronounce "au travers de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "au travers de" is \o tʁa.vɛʁ də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "au travers de" come from?
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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.