de pair et compagnon
\də pɛ.ʁ‿e kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃\
The verdict
“de pair et compagnon” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sur le même pied, d’une manière égale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de pair et compagnon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \də pɛ.ʁ‿e kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de pair et compagnon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de pair et compagnon is 20 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də pɛ.ʁ‿e kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃\. 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: "Sur le même pied, d’une manière égale.".
No misspelling variants are generated for de pair et compagnon 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 de pair et compagnon, spelled D-E- -P-A-I-R- -E-T- -C-O-M-P-A-G-N-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sur le même pied, d’une manière égale.
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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