compte tenu de

/\kɔ̃t tə.ny də\/ prep

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

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similar word pairs

compte tenu de is aFrenchprep. It means: Permet de préciser un lien de cause à effet ou un élément de contexte ; en considérant. Pronounced \kɔ̃t tə.ny də\.

Key facts for compte tenu de
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Headwordcompte tenu de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\kɔ̃t tə.ny də\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

compte tenu de 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 compte tenu de is 14 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃t tə.ny də\. 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: "Permet de préciser un lien de cause à effet ou un élément de contexte ; en considérant.".

No misspelling variants are generated for compte tenu de 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 compte tenu de, spelled C-O-M-P-T-E- -T-E-N-U- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Permet de préciser un lien de cause à effet ou un élément de contexte ; en considérant.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "compte tenu de"?
"compte tenu de" is spelled C-O-M-P-T-E- -T-E-N-U- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃t tə.ny də\.
What does "compte tenu de" mean?
As a prep, "compte tenu de" means: Permet de préciser un lien de cause à effet ou un élément de contexte ; en considérant.
How do you pronounce "compte tenu de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "compte tenu de" is \kɔ̃t tə.ny də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "compte tenu de" 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.