quanto prima

/\ˈkwan.to ˈpri.ma\/ adv

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.

Key facts for quanto prima
PropertyValue
Headwordquanto prima
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\ˈkwan.to ˈpri.ma\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “quanto prima” sits in French frequency

quanto prima 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 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

  1. 1
    Dès que possible, le plus tôt qu’il sera possible.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quanto prima"?
"quanto prima" is spelled Q-U-A-N-T-O- -P-R-I-M-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈkwan.to ˈpri.ma\.
What does "quanto prima" mean?
As an adverb, "quanto prima" means: Dès que possible, le plus tôt qu’il sera possible.
How do you pronounce "quanto prima"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quanto prima" is \ˈkwan.to ˈpri.ma\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quanto prima" come from?
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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.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

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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.