pour la première fois
\puʁ la pʁə.mjɛʁ fwa\
The verdict
“pour la première fois” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - De façon toute nouvelle, sans précédent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pour la première fois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \puʁ la pʁə.mjɛʁ fwa\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pour la première fois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pour la première fois is 21 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \puʁ la pʁə.mjɛʁ fwa\. 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: "De façon toute nouvelle, sans précédent.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pour la première fois, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pour la première fois, spelled P-O-U-R- -L-A- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -F-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1De façon toute nouvelle, sans précédent.
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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-R- -L-A- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -F-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \puʁ la pʁə.mjɛʁ fwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.