de place en place

adv

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

de place en place is anFrenchadv. It means: Ici et là.

Key facts for de place en place
PropertyValue
Headwordde place en place
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

de place en place 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 place en place is 17 letters long, classified as anadv. 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: "Ici et là.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for de place en place 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 place en place, spelled D-E- -P-L-A-C-E- -E-N- -P-L-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ici et là.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "de place en place"?
"de place en place" is spelled D-E- -P-L-A-C-E- -E-N- -P-L-A-C-E.
What does "de place en place" mean?
As an adv, "de place en place" means: Ici et là.
What language does "de place en place" 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.