c’est pourquoi
\sɛ puʁ.kwa\
The verdict
“c’est pourquoi” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a conjunction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Introduit la conséquence de ce qui précède.
Corpus desk
Index FR-c-est-pourquoi · c’est pourquoi · French
c’est pourquoi · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" 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 | c’est pourquoi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \sɛ puʁ.kwa\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
c’est pourquoi is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aconjunction, transcribed \sɛ puʁ.kwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Introduit la conséquence de ce qui précède.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for c’est pourquoi, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is c’est pourquoi, spelled C-’-E-S-T- -P-O-U-R-Q-U-O-I.
Definition
- 1Introduit la conséquence de ce qui précède.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how c’est pourquoi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— J’avais soif, dit Anne Desbaresdes. — Les premières chaleurs, c’est pourquoi.
A l'époque, il ne disposait bien sûr pas d’ordinateur, il faisait les calculs à la main, et c'est pourquoi le nombre de trajectoires calculées était limité.
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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.