être pour

/\ɛtʁ puʁ\/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

être pour is aFrenchverb. It means: Marquer une préférence envers. Pronounced \ɛtʁ puʁ\.

Key facts for être pour
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre pour
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛtʁ puʁ\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être pour is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Marquer une préférence envers.
  2. 2
    Être capable de, être de nature à. Note d’usage : Il est alors suivi d’un infinitif.
  3. 3
    Être sur le point de.
  4. 4
    (avec si) (avec un sujet de personne) Avoir l’intention de, avoir comme comportement à venir de.
  5. 5
    (avec si) (impersonnel) Être destiné à arriver.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être pour"?
"être pour" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -P-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛtʁ puʁ\.
What does "être pour" mean?
As a verb, "être pour" means: Marquer une préférence envers.
How do you pronounce "être pour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être pour" is \ɛtʁ puʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être pour" come from?
"être pour" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.