mot pour mot

/\mo puʁ mo\/ adv

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

mot pour mot is anFrenchadv. It means: Avec exactement les mêmes mots. Pronounced \mo puʁ mo\.

Key facts for mot pour mot
PropertyValue
Headwordmot pour mot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\mo puʁ mo\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mot pour mot 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 mot pour mot is 12 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mo puʁ mo\. 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: "Avec exactement les mêmes mots.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mot pour mot 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 mot pour mot, spelled M-O-T- -P-O-U-R- -M-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Avec exactement les mêmes mots.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mot pour mot"?
"mot pour mot" is spelled M-O-T- -P-O-U-R- -M-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \mo puʁ mo\.
What does "mot pour mot" mean?
As an adv, "mot pour mot" means: Avec exactement les mêmes mots.
How do you pronounce "mot pour mot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mot pour mot" is \mo puʁ mo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mot pour mot" come from?
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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.