pour peu que
\puʁ pø kə\
The verdict
“pour peu 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dans le cas où ; dans la mesure où.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pour peu que |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \puʁ pø kə\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pour peu que” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pour peu que is 12 letters long, classified as a conjunction, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \puʁ pø 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: "Dans le cas où ; dans la mesure où.".
pour peu que has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pour peu que, spelled P-O-U-R- -P-E-U- -Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Dans le cas où ; dans la mesure où.
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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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Using “pour peu que”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-R- -P-E-U- -Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \puʁ pø kə\ (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.