quelle heure
The verdict
“quelle heure” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a pronoun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Quel temps précisément dans ce jour. Note d’usage : Cette locution demande littéralement l’heure mais effectivement aussi la minute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quelle heure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \kɛ.l‿œʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quelle heure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quelle heure is 12 letters long, classified as a pronoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛ.l‿œʁ\. 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: "Quel temps précisément dans ce jour. Note d’usage : Cette locution demande littéralement l’heure mais effectivement aussi la minute.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quelle heure 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 quelle heure, spelled Q-U-E-L-L-E- -H-E-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quel temps précisément dans ce jour. Note d’usage : Cette locution demande littéralement l’heure mais effectivement aussi la minute.
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Using “quelle heure”
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-L-L-E- -H-E-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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