chacun pour soi

/\ʃa.kœ̃ puʁ swa\/ adv

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chacun pour soi is anFrenchadv. It means: Dans un but personnel et égoïste. Pronounced \ʃa.kœ̃ puʁ swa\.

Key facts for chacun pour soi
PropertyValue
Headwordchacun pour soi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\ʃa.kœ̃ puʁ swa\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chacun pour soi is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chacun pour soi is 15 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.kœ̃ puʁ swa\. 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: "Dans un but personnel et égoïste.".

No misspelling variants are generated for chacun pour soi 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 chacun pour soi, spelled C-H-A-C-U-N- -P-O-U-R- -S-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dans un but personnel et égoïste.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chacun pour soi"?
"chacun pour soi" is spelled C-H-A-C-U-N- -P-O-U-R- -S-O-I. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃa.kœ̃ puʁ swa\.
What does "chacun pour soi" mean?
As an adv, "chacun pour soi" means: Dans un but personnel et égoïste.
How do you pronounce "chacun pour soi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chacun pour soi" is \ʃa.kœ̃ puʁ swa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chacun pour soi" come from?
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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.