de moment en moment

/\də mo.mɑ̃ ɑ̃ mo.mɑ̃\/ adv

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19 characters

Language

French

word origin

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de moment en moment is anFrenchadv. It means: De temps à autre, de temps en temps. Pronounced \də mo.mɑ̃ ɑ̃ mo.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for de moment en moment
PropertyValue
Headwordde moment en moment
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\də mo.mɑ̃ ɑ̃ mo.mɑ̃\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

de moment en moment 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 de moment en moment is 19 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də mo.mɑ̃ ɑ̃ mo.mɑ̃\. 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 temps à autre, de temps en temps.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for de moment en moment 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 de moment en moment, spelled D-E- -M-O-M-E-N-T- -E-N- -M-O-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    De temps à autre, de temps en temps.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "de moment en moment"?
"de moment en moment" is spelled D-E- -M-O-M-E-N-T- -E-N- -M-O-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \də mo.mɑ̃ ɑ̃ mo.mɑ̃\.
What does "de moment en moment" mean?
As an adv, "de moment en moment" means: De temps à autre, de temps en temps.
How do you pronounce "de moment en moment"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "de moment en moment" is \də mo.mɑ̃ ɑ̃ mo.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "de moment en moment" 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.