d’autant moins
The verdict
“d’autant moins” 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) - Pour introduire un motif poussant à s’abstenir de faire quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-d-autant-moins · d’autant moins · French
d’autant moins · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | d’autant moins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « d’autant moins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
d’autant moins is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aconjunction. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pour introduire un motif poussant à s’abstenir de faire quelque chose.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for d’autant moins, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is d’autant moins, spelled D-’-A-U-T-A-N-T- -M-O-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pour introduire un motif poussant à s’abstenir de faire quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how d’autant moins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il en est d’autant moins à craindre.
Il mérite d’autant moins vos bontés qu’il paraît en faire peu de cas.
Antonyms
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.