sans vous commander
\sɑ̃ vu kɔ.mɑ̃.de\
The verdict
“sans vous commander” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Locution qui permet de demander quelque chose poliment à quelqu’un que l’on vouvoie, ou à plusieurs personnes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sans vous commander |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \sɑ̃ vu kɔ.mɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sans vous commander” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sans vous commander is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed \sɑ̃ vu kɔ.mɑ̃.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Locution qui permet de demander quelque chose poliment à quelqu’un que l’on vouvoie, ou à plusieurs personnes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sans vous commander, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sans vous commander, spelled S-A-N-S- -V-O-U-S- -C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Locution qui permet de demander quelque chose poliment à quelqu’un que l’on vouvoie, ou à plusieurs personnes.
Synonyms
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 “sans vous commander”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-N-S- -V-O-U-S- -C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɑ̃ vu kɔ.mɑ̃.de\ (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
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.