sans compter
\sɑ̃ kɔ̃.te\
The verdict
“sans compter” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Sans faire attention à la quantité, très généreusement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sans compter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃ kɔ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sans compter” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sans compter is 12 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃ kɔ̃.te\. 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: "Sans faire attention à la quantité, très généreusement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sans compter 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 sans compter, spelled S-A-N-S- -C-O-M-P-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sans faire attention à la quantité, très généreusement.
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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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-N-S- -C-O-M-P-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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