être pour
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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être pour is aFrenchverb. It means: Marquer une préférence envers. Pronounced \ɛtʁ puʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | être pour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛtʁ puʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for être pour is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛtʁ puʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être pour in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 être pour, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -P-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marquer une préférence envers.
- 2Être capable de, être de nature à. Note d’usage : Il est alors suivi d’un infinitif.
- 3Être sur le point de.
- 4(avec si) (avec un sujet de personne) Avoir l’intention de, avoir comme comportement à venir de.
- 5(avec si) (impersonnel) Être destiné à arriver.
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