n’importe où

/\nɛ̃.pɔʁ.t‿u\/ adv

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

n’importe où is anFrenchadv. It means: À un endroit, soit qu’on ne connaît pas, soit qui n’a pas d’importance. Pronounced \nɛ̃.pɔʁ.t‿u\.

Key facts for n’importe où
PropertyValue
Headwordn’importe où
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\nɛ̃.pɔʁ.t‿u\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

n’importe où is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for n’importe où is 12 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɛ̃.pɔʁ.t‿u\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for n’importe où in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 n’importe où, spelled N-’-I-M-P-O-R-T-E- -O-Ù, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    À un endroit, soit qu’on ne connaît pas, soit qui n’a pas d’importance.
  2. 2
    En dehors des lieux prévus.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "n’importe où"?
"n’importe où" is spelled N-’-I-M-P-O-R-T-E- -O-Ù. The IPA pronunciation is \nɛ̃.pɔʁ.t‿u\.
What does "n’importe où" mean?
As an adv, "n’importe où" means: À un endroit, soit qu’on ne connaît pas, soit qui n’a pas d’importance.
How do you pronounce "n’importe où"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "n’importe où" is \nɛ̃.pɔʁ.t‿u\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "n’importe où" come from?
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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.