autant pour moi

/\o.tɑ̃ puʁ mwa\/ phrase

The verdict

“autant pour moi” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
15
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Formule par laquelle on reconnaît une erreur que l’on a commise.

Key facts for autant pour moi
PropertyValue
Headwordautant pour moi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\o.tɑ̃ puʁ mwa\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “autant pour moi” sits in French frequency

autant pour moi falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for autant pour moi is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, 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 par laquelle on reconnaît une erreur que l’on a commise.".

No misspelling variants are generated for autant 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 autant pour moi, spelled A-U-T-A-N-T- -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

  1. 1
    Formule par laquelle on reconnaît une erreur que l’on a commise.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "autant pour moi"?
"autant pour moi" is spelled A-U-T-A-N-T- -P-O-U-R- -M-O-I. The IPA pronunciation is \o.tɑ̃ puʁ mwa\.
What does "autant pour moi" mean?
As a phrase, "autant pour moi" means: Formule par laquelle on reconnaît une erreur que l’on a commise.
How do you pronounce "autant pour moi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autant pour moi" is \o.tɑ̃ puʁ mwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "autant pour moi" come from?
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Using “autant pour moi”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is A-U-T-A-N-T- -P-O-U-R- -M-O-I — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \o.tɑ̃ puʁ mwa\ (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.