de première main
\də pʁə.mjɛʁ mɛ̃\
The verdict
“de première main” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Directement issu de la source ; de la main de celui qui a le premier recueilli, fabriqué ou mis en vente la chose dont il s’agit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de première main |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \də pʁə.mjɛʁ mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de première main” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de première main is 16 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də pʁə.mjɛʁ mɛ̃\. 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: "Directement issu de la source ; de la main de celui qui a le premier recueilli, fabriqué ou mis en vente la chose dont il s’agit.".
No misspelling variants are generated for de première main 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 première main, spelled D-E- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -M-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Directement issu de la source ; de la main de celui qui a le premier recueilli, fabriqué ou mis en vente la chose dont il s’agit.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -M-A-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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