dès que possible

/\dɛ kə pɔ.sibl\/ adv

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

dès que possible is anFrenchadv. It means: Le plus tôt qu’il sera possible. Pronounced \dɛ kə pɔ.sibl\.

Key facts for dès que possible
PropertyValue
Headworddès que possible
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\dɛ kə pɔ.sibl\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dès que possible is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dès que possible is 16 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɛ kə pɔ.sibl\. 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: "Le plus tôt qu’il sera possible.".

No misspelling variants are generated for dès que possible 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 dès que possible, spelled D-È-S- -Q-U-E- -P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Le plus tôt qu’il sera possible.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dès que possible"?
"dès que possible" is spelled D-È-S- -Q-U-E- -P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɛ kə pɔ.sibl\.
What does "dès que possible" mean?
As an adv, "dès que possible" means: Le plus tôt qu’il sera possible.
How do you pronounce "dès que possible"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dès que possible" is \dɛ kə pɔ.sibl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dès que possible" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.