de tout et de rien
\də tu e də ʁjɛ̃\
The verdict
“de tout et de rien” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - De choses diverses, voire futiles. -
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de tout et de rien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \də tu e də ʁjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de tout et de rien” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de tout et de rien is 18 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də tu e də ʁjɛ̃\. 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 choses diverses, voire futiles. -".
No misspelling variants are generated for de tout et de rien 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 tout et de rien, spelled D-E- -T-O-U-T- -E-T- -D-E- -R-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De choses diverses, voire futiles. -
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -T-O-U-T- -E-T- -D-E- -R-I-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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