de plus belle
\də ply bɛl\
The verdict
“de plus belle” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Encore plus fort ; de plus en plus fort.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de plus belle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \də ply bɛl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de plus belle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de plus belle is 13 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də ply bɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for de plus belle 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 plus belle, spelled D-E- -P-L-U-S- -B-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Encore plus fort ; de plus en plus fort.
- 2Tout de nouveau.
- 3Avec plus de vigueur.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -P-L-U-S- -B-E-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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