d’autant moins que
\do.tɑ̃ mwɛ̃ kə\
The verdict
“d’autant moins que” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a conjunction - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Exprime une causalité et introduit une idée d’intensité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | d’autant moins que |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \do.tɑ̃ mwɛ̃ kə\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “d’autant moins que” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for d’autant moins que is 18 letters long, classified as a conjunction, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \do.tɑ̃ mwɛ̃ kə\. 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: "Exprime une causalité et introduit une idée d’intensité.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for d’autant moins que, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 d’autant moins que, spelled D-’-A-U-T-A-N-T- -M-O-I-N-S- -Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Exprime une causalité et introduit une idée d’intensité.
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.
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Using “d’autant moins que”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-’-A-U-T-A-N-T- -M-O-I-N-S- -Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \do.tɑ̃ mwɛ̃ kə\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.