pourquoi du comment

/\puʁ.kwa dy kɔ.mɑ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“pourquoi du comment” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
19
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Détails de la cause, de la raison.

Key facts for pourquoi du comment
PropertyValue
Headwordpourquoi du comment
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\puʁ.kwa dy kɔ.mɑ̃\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pourquoi du comment” sits in French frequency

pourquoi du comment falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pourquoi du comment is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \puʁ.kwa dy kɔ.mɑ̃\. 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: "Détails de la cause, de la raison.".

No misspelling variants are generated for pourquoi du comment 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 pourquoi du comment, spelled P-O-U-R-Q-U-O-I- -D-U- -C-O-M-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Détails de la cause, de la raison.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pourquoi du comment"?
"pourquoi du comment" is spelled P-O-U-R-Q-U-O-I- -D-U- -C-O-M-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \puʁ.kwa dy kɔ.mɑ̃\.
What does "pourquoi du comment" mean?
As a noun, "pourquoi du comment" means: Détails de la cause, de la raison.
How do you pronounce "pourquoi du comment"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pourquoi du comment" is \puʁ.kwa dy kɔ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pourquoi du comment" come from?
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Using “pourquoi du comment”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-R-Q-U-O-I- -D-U- -C-O-M-M-E-N-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \puʁ.kwa dy kɔ.mɑ̃\ (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.