nonobstant que
The verdict
“nonobstant que” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a conjunction — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: ou Conjonction de subordination introduisant une concession.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nonobstant que |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \nɔ.nɔp.stɑ̃ kə\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nonobstant que” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nonobstant que is 14 letters long, classified as a conjunction, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ.nɔp.stɑ̃ kə\. 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: "ou Conjonction de subordination introduisant une concession.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nonobstant que 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 nonobstant que, spelled N-O-N-O-B-S-T-A-N-T- -Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ou Conjonction de subordination introduisant une concession.
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Using “nonobstant que”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-O-N-O-B-S-T-A-N-T- -Q-U-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nɔ.nɔp.stɑ̃ kə\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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