de pus en pus
The verdict
“de pus en pus” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: De plus en plus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de pus en pus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \de ˈpyz‿en ˈpys\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de pus en pus” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de pus en pus is 13 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de ˈpyz‿en ˈpys\. 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 plus en plus.".
No misspelling variants are generated for de pus en pus 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 pus en pus, spelled D-E- -P-U-S- -E-N- -P-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De plus en plus.
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Using “de pus en pus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -P-U-S- -E-N- -P-U-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de ˈpyz‿en ˈpys\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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