d’heure en heure

/\d‿œ.ʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿œʁ\/ adv

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

d’heure en heure is anFrenchadv. It means: Heure après heure. Pronounced \d‿œ.ʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿œʁ\.

Key facts for d’heure en heure
PropertyValue
Headwordd’heure en heure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\d‿œ.ʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿œʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

d’heure en heure is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for d’heure en heure is 16 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \d‿œ.ʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿œʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for d’heure en heure 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 d’heure en heure, spelled D-’-H-E-U-R-E- -E-N- -H-E-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Heure après heure.
  2. 2
    Chaque heure davantage.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "d’heure en heure"?
"d’heure en heure" is spelled D-’-H-E-U-R-E- -E-N- -H-E-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \d‿œ.ʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿œʁ\.
What does "d’heure en heure" mean?
As an adv, "d’heure en heure" means: Heure après heure.
How do you pronounce "d’heure en heure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "d’heure en heure" is \d‿œ.ʁ‿ɑ̃.n‿œʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "d’heure en heure" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.