chacun pour soi
\ʃa.kœ̃ puʁ swa\
The verdict
“chacun pour soi” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans un but personnel et égoïste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chacun-pour-soi · chacun pour soi · French
chacun pour soi · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 | chacun pour soi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ʃa.kœ̃ puʁ swa\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chacun pour soi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chacun pour soi is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ʃa.kœ̃ puʁ swa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dans un but personnel et égoïste.".
chacun pour soi has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chacun pour soi, spelled C-H-A-C-U-N- -P-O-U-R- -S-O-I.
Definition
- 1Dans un but personnel et égoïste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chacun pour soi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et ils ont cherché à accaparer, chacun pour soi, la plus grande quantité de jouissances possible, sans s’occuper des intérêts d’autrui.
La solidarité se perd, maintenant c’est chacun pour soi.
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.