be going to

/\bi ˌɡoʊ.ɪŋ tu\/ verb

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

be going to is aFrenchverb. It means: (Avec un infinitif) Aller (faire quelque chose). Indique un projet ou une prédiction probable dans le futur. Pronounced \bi ˌɡoʊ.ɪŋ tu\.

Key facts for be going to
PropertyValue
Headwordbe going to
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bi ˌɡoʊ.ɪŋ tu\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

be going to is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for be going to is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bi ˌɡoʊ.ɪŋ tu\. 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: "(Avec un infinitif) Aller (faire quelque chose). Indique un projet ou une prédiction probable dans le futur.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for be going to in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 be going to, spelled B-E- -G-O-I-N-G- -T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Avec un infinitif) Aller (faire quelque chose). Indique un projet ou une prédiction probable dans le futur.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "be going to"?
"be going to" is spelled B-E- -G-O-I-N-G- -T-O. The IPA pronunciation is \bi ˌɡoʊ.ɪŋ tu\.
What does "be going to" mean?
As a verb, "be going to" means: (Avec un infinitif) Aller (faire quelque chose). Indique un projet ou une prédiction probable dans le futur.
How do you pronounce "be going to"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "be going to" is \bi ˌɡoʊ.ɪŋ tu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "be going to" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.