autre chose

/\o.tʁə ʃoz\/ pron

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

autre chose is aFrenchpron. It means: Quelque chose d’autre. Pronounced \o.tʁə ʃoz\.

Key facts for autre chose
PropertyValue
Headwordautre chose
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPron
IPA\o.tʁə ʃoz\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

autre chose 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 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

  1. 1
    Quelque chose d’autre.
  2. 2
    S’emploie pour mettre en valeur ladite chose.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "autre chose"?
"autre chose" is spelled A-U-T-R-E- -C-H-O-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.tʁə ʃoz\.
What does "autre chose" mean?
As a pron, "autre chose" means: Quelque chose d’autre.
How do you pronounce "autre chose"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autre chose" is \o.tʁə ʃoz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "autre chose" 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.