comment allez-vous
Letters
18 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
comment allez-vous is aFrenchphrase. It means: Salutation interrogative pour demander si la personne va bien ou mal à l’adresse d’une personne que l’on vouvoie. Pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.t‿a.le.vu\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comment allez-vous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃.t‿a.le.vu\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for comment allez-vous is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mɑ̃.t‿a.le.vu\. 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: "Salutation interrogative pour demander si la personne va bien ou mal à l’adresse d’une personne que l’on vouvoie.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for comment allez-vous 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 comment allez-vous, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-T- -A-L-L-E-Z---V-O-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Salutation interrogative pour demander si la personne va bien ou mal à l’adresse d’une personne que l’on vouvoie.
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