tout d’une haleine
\tu d‿y.n‿a.lɛn\
The verdict
“tout d’une haleine” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tout d’un trait ; sans reprendre haleine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tout d’une haleine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \tu d‿y.n‿a.lɛn\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tout d’une haleine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tout d’une haleine is 18 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tu d‿y.n‿a.lɛn\. 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.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tout d’une haleine, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tout d’une haleine, spelled T-O-U-T- -D-’-U-N-E- -H-A-L-E-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Tout d’un trait ; sans reprendre haleine.
- 2Sans se reposer et sans que la mémoire hésite.
- 3Sans intermission ; sans arrêt ; sans discontinuer
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 “tout d’une haleine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-U-T- -D-’-U-N-E- -H-A-L-E-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tu d‿y.n‿a.lɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.