envers et contre tous
\ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁ‿e kɔ̃.tʁə tus\
The verdict
“envers et contre tous” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - À l’encontre de tous.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | envers et contre tous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁ‿e kɔ̃.tʁə tus\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “envers et contre tous” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for envers et contre tous is 21 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.vɛ.ʁ‿e kɔ̃.tʁə tus\. 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: "À l’encontre de tous.".
envers et contre tous doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is envers et contre tous, spelled E-N-V-E-R-S- -E-T- -C-O-N-T-R-E- -T-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1À l’encontre de tous.
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 “envers et contre tous”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-N-V-E-R-S- -E-T- -C-O-N-T-R-E- -T-O-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.