tant pis

/\tɑ̃ pi\/ adv

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

tant pis is anFrenchadv. It means: C’est dommage, c’est ennuyeux, c’est préjudiciable mais c’est ainsi. Pronounced \tɑ̃ pi\.

Key facts for tant pis
PropertyValue
Headwordtant pis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\tɑ̃ pi\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tant pis is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    C’est dommage, c’est ennuyeux, c’est préjudiciable mais c’est ainsi.
  2. 2
    Bien fait !
  3. 3
    Exprime l'idée de continuer une action ou accepter une situation malgré un obstacle, une objection ou une contrainte.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tant pis"?
"tant pis" is spelled T-A-N-T- -P-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tɑ̃ pi\.
What does "tant pis" mean?
As an adv, "tant pis" means: C’est dommage, c’est ennuyeux, c’est préjudiciable mais c’est ainsi.
How do you pronounce "tant pis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tant pis" is \tɑ̃ pi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tant pis" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.