dans la mesure du possible

/\dɑ̃ la mə.zyʁ dy pɔ.sibl\/ adv

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26 characters

Language

French

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dans la mesure du possible is anFrenchadv. It means: En faisant le maximum de ce qui est faisable pour atteindre un objectif ou s’en approcher. Pronounced \dɑ̃ la mə.zyʁ dy pɔ.sibl\.

Key facts for dans la mesure du possible
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Headworddans la mesure du possible
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\dɑ̃ la mə.zyʁ dy pɔ.sibl\
Letters26
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dans la mesure du possible 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 dans la mesure du possible is 26 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃ la mə.zyʁ dy pɔ.sibl\. 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: "En faisant le maximum de ce qui est faisable pour atteindre un objectif ou s’en approcher.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dans la mesure du possible 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 dans la mesure du possible, spelled D-A-N-S- -L-A- -M-E-S-U-R-E- -D-U- -P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En faisant le maximum de ce qui est faisable pour atteindre un objectif ou s’en approcher.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dans la mesure du possible"?
"dans la mesure du possible" is spelled D-A-N-S- -L-A- -M-E-S-U-R-E- -D-U- -P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɑ̃ la mə.zyʁ dy pɔ.sibl\.
What does "dans la mesure du possible" mean?
As an adv, "dans la mesure du possible" means: En faisant le maximum de ce qui est faisable pour atteindre un objectif ou s’en approcher.
How do you pronounce "dans la mesure du possible"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dans la mesure du possible" is \dɑ̃ la mə.zyʁ dy pɔ.sibl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dans la mesure du possible" 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.