de tous côtés
\də tu kɔ.te\
The verdict
“de 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dans toutes les directions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de tous côtés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \də tu kɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de tous côtés” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de tous côtés is 13 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də tu kɔ.te\. 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 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 côtés, spelled D-E- -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.
- 2De toutes parts.
- 3Tout autour.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “de tous côtés”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -T-O-U-S- -C-Ô-T-É-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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