de toute éternité
The verdict
“de toute éternité” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ou Durant des temps immémoriaux ; sans début et sans fin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de toute éternité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de toute éternité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de toute éternité is 17 letters long, classified as an adverb. 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: "ou Durant des temps immémoriaux ; sans début et sans fin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for de toute éternité 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 toute éternité, spelled D-E- -T-O-U-T-E- -É-T-E-R-N-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ou Durant des temps immémoriaux ; sans début et sans fin.
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 toute éternité”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -T-O-U-T-E- -É-T-E-R-N-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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