dans le dos de

/\dɑ̃ lə do də\/ prep

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

dans le dos de is aFrenchprep. It means: Qui se trouve derrière quelqu’un, dans le dos de quelqu’un. Pronounced \dɑ̃ lə do də\.

Key facts for dans le dos de
PropertyValue
Headworddans le dos de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\dɑ̃ lə do də\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dans le dos de is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dans le dos de is 14 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃ lə do də\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for dans le dos de in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 le dos de, spelled D-A-N-S- -L-E- -D-O-S- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui se trouve derrière quelqu’un, dans le dos de quelqu’un.
  2. 2
    En l’absence de.
  3. 3
    Sans le consentement de.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dans le dos de"?
"dans le dos de" is spelled D-A-N-S- -L-E- -D-O-S- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɑ̃ lə do də\.
What does "dans le dos de" mean?
As a prep, "dans le dos de" means: Qui se trouve derrière quelqu’un, dans le dos de quelqu’un.
How do you pronounce "dans le dos de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dans le dos de" is \dɑ̃ lə do də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dans le dos de" come from?
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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.