question the question
The verdict
“question the question” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Mettre en question la question (remettre en question, mettre en doute, remettre en cause la question), signaler la non-pertinence de la question, par exemple d'une question basée sur un raisonnemen...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | question the question |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “question the question” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for question the question is 21 letters long, classified as a verb. 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: "Mettre en question la question (remettre en question, mettre en doute, remettre en cause la question), signaler la non-pertinence de la question, par exemple d'une question basée sur un raisonnemen...".
No misspelling variants are generated for question the question 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 question the question, spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -T-H-E- -Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mettre en question la question (remettre en question, mettre en doute, remettre en cause la question), signaler la non-pertinence de la question, par exemple d'une question basée sur un raisonnement fallacieux ou qui vise à tromper, p. ex. un cas de plurium interrogationum.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “question the question”
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -T-H-E- -Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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