plus que de raison
\ply kə də ʁɛ.zɔ̃\
The verdict
“plus que de raison” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plus que nécessaire, à l’excès, de façon excessive, plus qu’il n’est raisonnable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plus que de raison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ply kə də ʁɛ.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “plus que de raison” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plus que de raison is 18 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ply kə də ʁɛ.zɔ̃\. 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: "Plus que nécessaire, à l’excès, de façon excessive, plus qu’il n’est raisonnable.".
No misspelling variants are generated for plus que de raison 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 plus que de raison, spelled P-L-U-S- -Q-U-E- -D-E- -R-A-I-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plus que nécessaire, à l’excès, de façon excessive, plus qu’il n’est raisonnable.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-L-U-S- -Q-U-E- -D-E- -R-A-I-S-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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