dans une moindre mesure
\dɑ̃ yn mwɛ̃dʁ mə.zyʁ\
The verdict
“dans une moindre mesure” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — De façon moins importante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dans une moindre mesure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \dɑ̃ yn mwɛ̃dʁ mə.zyʁ\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dans une moindre mesure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dans une moindre mesure is 23 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃ yn mwɛ̃dʁ mə.zyʁ\. 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: "De façon moins importante.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dans une moindre mesure 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 une moindre mesure, spelled D-A-N-S- -U-N-E- -M-O-I-N-D-R-E- -M-E-S-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De façon moins importante.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-S- -U-N-E- -M-O-I-N-D-R-E- -M-E-S-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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