entre de mauvaises mains
\ɑ̃.tʁə də mɔ.vɛz mɛ̃\
The verdict
“entre de mauvaises mains” 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
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mal pris en charge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entre de mauvaises mains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə də mɔ.vɛz mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “entre de mauvaises mains” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for entre de mauvaises mains is 24 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tʁə də mɔ.vɛz 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: "Mal pris en charge.".
No misspelling variants are generated for entre de mauvaises mains 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 entre de mauvaises mains, spelled E-N-T-R-E- -D-E- -M-A-U-V-A-I-S-E-S- -M-A-I-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mal pris en charge.
Antonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is E-N-T-R-E- -D-E- -M-A-U-V-A-I-S-E-S- -M-A-I-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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