de tous bords tous côtés
\də tu bɔʁ tu kɔ.te\
The verdict
“de tous bords tous côtés” 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
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dans toutes les directions, ou de partout.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de tous bords tous côtés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \də tu bɔʁ tu kɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de tous bords tous côtés” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de tous bords tous côtés is 24 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də tu bɔʁ tu kɔ.te\. 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: "Dans toutes les directions, ou de partout.".
No misspelling variants are generated for de tous bords tous côtés 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 tous bords tous côtés, spelled D-E- -T-O-U-S- -B-O-R-D-S- -T-O-U-S- -C-Ô-T-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans toutes les directions, ou de partout.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -T-O-U-S- -B-O-R-D-S- -T-O-U-S- -C-Ô-T-É-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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