take for granted
The verdict
“take for granted” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Prendre pour acquis, prendre comme allant de soi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | take for granted |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \teɪk fɔːɹ ˈɡɹɑːn.tɪd\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “take for granted” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for take for granted is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \teɪk fɔːɹ ˈɡɹɑːn.tɪd\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for take for granted 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 take for granted, spelled T-A-K-E- -F-O-R- -G-R-A-N-T-E-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prendre pour acquis, prendre comme allant de soi.
- 2Sous-estimer.
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 “take for granted”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-A-K-E- -F-O-R- -G-R-A-N-T-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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