quant aux
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9 characters
Language
French
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quant aux is aFrenchprep. It means: Variante de quant à, utilisée quand le nom qui suit la locution prépositive est au pluriel et devrait normalement être précédé de les (quant aux remplace obligatoirement quant à les). Pronounced \kɑ̃.t‿o\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quant aux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.t‿o\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quant aux is 9 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.t‿o\. 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: "Variante de quant à, utilisée quand le nom qui suit la locution prépositive est au pluriel et devrait normalement être précédé de les (quant aux remplace obligatoirement quant à les).".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quant aux in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 quant aux, spelled Q-U-A-N-T- -A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variante de quant à, utilisée quand le nom qui suit la locution prépositive est au pluriel et devrait normalement être précédé de les (quant aux remplace obligatoirement quant à les).
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