pour l’éternité
The verdict
“pour l’éternité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. 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) - Pour toujours ; pour jamais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pour-l-eternite · pour l’éternité · French
pour l’éternité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | pour l’éternité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pour l’éternité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pour l’éternité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pour toujours ; pour jamais.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pour l’éternité in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pour l’éternité, spelled P-O-U-R- -L-’-É-T-E-R-N-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Pour toujours ; pour jamais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pour l’éternité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y eut une chose, en dehors de leur propre inaptitude, qui contribua à l'effondrement de ces systèmes établis pour l’éternité, c'est justement le fait qu'une pensée pragmatique ne peut conserver des systèmes bâtis sur des idéologies.
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.