avec des pincettes
The verdict
“avec des pincettes” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Délicatement, avec beaucoup de précautions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avec des pincettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avec des pincettes” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
avec des pincettes is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Délicatement, avec beaucoup de précautions.".
avec des pincettes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is avec des pincettes, spelled A-V-E-C- -D-E-S- -P-I-N-C-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Délicatement, avec beaucoup de précautions.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “avec des pincettes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-V-E-C- -D-E-S- -P-I-N-C-E-T-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.