dans tous ses états
\dɑ̃ tu sɛ.z‿e.ta\
The verdict
“dans tous ses états” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — En totalité ; sous tous les angles, tous les points de vue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dans tous ses états |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɑ̃ tu sɛ.z‿e.ta\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dans tous ses états” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dans tous ses états is 19 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃ tu sɛ.z‿e.ta\. 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 totalité ; sous tous les angles, tous les points de vue.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dans tous ses états 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 tous ses états, spelled D-A-N-S- -T-O-U-S- -S-E-S- -É-T-A-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En totalité ; sous tous les angles, tous les points de vue.
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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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-S- -T-O-U-S- -S-E-S- -É-T-A-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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