de temps en quand

/\de tens en kan\/ adv

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

de temps en quand is anFrenchadv. It means: De temps à autre, de temps en temps Pronounced \de tens en kan\.

Key facts for de temps en quand
PropertyValue
Headwordde temps en quand
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\de tens en kan\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

de temps en quand 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 temps en quand is 17 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de tens en kan\. 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 temps à autre, de temps en temps".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for de temps en quand 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 temps en quand, spelled D-E- -T-E-M-P-S- -E-N- -Q-U-A-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    De temps à autre, de temps en temps

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "de temps en quand"?
"de temps en quand" is spelled D-E- -T-E-M-P-S- -E-N- -Q-U-A-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is \de tens en kan\.
What does "de temps en quand" mean?
As an adv, "de temps en quand" means: De temps à autre, de temps en temps
How do you pronounce "de temps en quand"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "de temps en quand" is \de tens en kan\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "de temps en quand" come from?
"de temps en quand" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.