hors d’atteinte
^((h aspiré))\ɔʁ d‿a.tɛ̃t\
The verdict
“hors d’atteinte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne peut être atteint, de ce à quoi on ne peut atteindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hors-d-atteinte · hors d’atteinte · French
hors d’atteinte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hors d’atteinte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔʁ d‿a.tɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hors d’atteinte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hors d’atteinte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\ɔʁ d‿a.tɛ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ne peut être atteint, de ce à quoi on ne peut atteindre.".
hors d’atteinte has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hors d’atteinte, spelled H-O-R-S- -D-’-A-T-T-E-I-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne peut être atteint, de ce à quoi on ne peut atteindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hors d’atteinte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant, il juge assez correctement des distances et ne lance pas sa langue à l’étourdie sur une proie hors d’atteinte.
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.