tant pis
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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tant pis is anFrenchadv. It means: C’est dommage, c’est ennuyeux, c’est préjudiciable mais c’est ainsi. Pronounced \tɑ̃ pi\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tant pis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \tɑ̃ pi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for tant pis is 8 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃ pi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tant pis in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 tant pis, spelled T-A-N-T- -P-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1C’est dommage, c’est ennuyeux, c’est préjudiciable mais c’est ainsi.
- 2Bien fait !
- 3Exprime l'idée de continuer une action ou accepter une situation malgré un obstacle, une objection ou une contrainte.
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