autrement dit
\o.tʁə.mɑ̃ di\
The verdict
“autrement dit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Cette locution sert à reformuler de façon différente, souvent plus précisément ou de manière mieux compréhensible, ce qui est dit précédemment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autrement-dit · autrement dit · French
autrement dit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autrement dit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \o.tʁə.mɑ̃ di\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “autrement dit” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
autrement dit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \o.tʁə.mɑ̃ di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cette locution sert à reformuler de façon différente, souvent plus précisément ou de manière mieux compréhensible, ce qui est dit précédemment.".
Zero misspellings are on record for autrement dit in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is autrement dit, spelled A-U-T-R-E-M-E-N-T- -D-I-T.
Definition
- 1Cette locution sert à reformuler de façon différente, souvent plus précisément ou de manière mieux compréhensible, ce qui est dit précédemment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autrement dit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’arrive-t-il, par exemple, lorsqu'on utilise, (…), la grande charrue pour pratiquer le déchaussage et le rechaussage, autrement dit, pour ouvrir et refermer la vigne ?
[…], on doit se rappeler que […] l’islam insiste sur la communauté, non sur l’individu, et que la croyance religieuse est, en même temps, de ce monde et de l’autre ; autrement dit transcendante ou eschatologique et immanente en une seule et même fois.
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