d’autre part
\d‿o.tʁə paʁ\
The verdict
“d’autre part” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’ailleurs ; par ailleurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-d-autre-part · d’autre part · French
d’autre part · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 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’autre part |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \d‿o.tʁə paʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « d’autre part » en français
Rare enough to double-check
d’autre part is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \d‿o.tʁə paʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
d’autre part doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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’autre part, spelled D-’-A-U-T-R-E- -P-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1D’ailleurs ; par ailleurs.
- 2En plus ; en outre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how d’autre part appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’autre part, les renseignements recueillis sur la ménagère établissaient qu’elle radotait assez souvent et n’était pas capable, pour peu qu’on insistât, d’affirmer deux fois les mêmes choses.
Il fallait servir d’une part M. Bergeret qui ne voulait plus prendre ses repas avec madame Bergeret et, d’une autre part, madame Bergeret dont l’existence, obstinément niée par M. Bergeret, ne se soutenait pas toutefois sans nourriture.
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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.