écarter d’un revers de main
The verdict
“écarter d’un revers de main” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 27
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Rejeter catégoriquement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écarter d’un revers de main |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kaʁ.te d‿œ̃ ʁə.vɛʁ də mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écarter d’un revers de main” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écarter d’un revers de main is 27 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kaʁ.te d‿œ̃ ʁə.vɛʁ də mɛ̃\. 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: "Rejeter catégoriquement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for écarter d’un revers de main 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 écarter d’un revers de main, spelled É-C-A-R-T-E-R- -D-’-U-N- -R-E-V-E-R-S- -D-E- -M-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rejeter catégoriquement.
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Using “écarter d’un revers de main”
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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-A-R-T-E-R- -D-’-U-N- -R-E-V-E-R-S- -D-E- -M-A-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.kaʁ.te d‿œ̃ ʁə.vɛʁ də mɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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