bec et ongles
The verdict
“bec et ongles” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: De toutes ses forces.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bec et ongles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \bɛ.k‿e ɔ̃ɡl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bec et ongles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bec et ongles is 13 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ.k‿e ɔ̃ɡl\. 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: "De toutes ses forces.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bec et ongles 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 bec et ongles, spelled B-E-C- -E-T- -O-N-G-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De toutes ses forces.
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Using “bec et ongles”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-E-C- -E-T- -O-N-G-L-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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