autre chose
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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autre chose is aFrenchpron. It means: Quelque chose d’autre. Pronounced \o.tʁə ʃoz\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autre chose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | \o.tʁə ʃoz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for autre chose is 11 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.tʁə ʃoz\. 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 autre chose 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 autre chose, spelled A-U-T-R-E- -C-H-O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quelque chose d’autre.
- 2S’emploie pour mettre en valeur ladite chose.
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