du tout
\dy tu\
The verdict
“du tout” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Renforce la négation de certains adverbes négatifs comme pas, point ou rien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-du-tout · du tout · French
du tout · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | du tout |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \dy tu\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « du tout » en français
Rare enough to double-check
du tout is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \dy tu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Renforce la négation de certains adverbes négatifs comme pas, point ou rien.".
No misspelling variants are generated for du tout in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is du tout, spelled D-U- -T-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Renforce la négation de certains adverbes négatifs comme pas, point ou rien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how du tout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; partant, un bon compositeur fait rarement des bourdons, et le meilleur est sans contredit celui qui, outre qu'il ne laisse que peu de coquilles ou de fautes légères à corriger, n'est pas du tout bourdonniste.
Don Juan — Tu leur as répondu que tu n’y entendais rien ? Sganarelle — Moi, point du tout, j’ai voulu soutenir l’honneur de mon habit.
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.