quanto prima
The verdict
“quanto prima” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dès que possible, le plus tôt qu’il sera possible.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quanto prima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈkwan.to ˈpri.ma\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quanto prima” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quanto prima is 12 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈkwan.to ˈpri.ma\. 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: "Dès que possible, le plus tôt qu’il sera possible.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quanto prima 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 quanto prima, spelled Q-U-A-N-T-O- -P-R-I-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dès que possible, le plus tôt qu’il sera possible.
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Using “quanto prima”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-N-T-O- -P-R-I-M-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈkwan.to ˈpri.ma\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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