tout le temps

/\tu lə tɑ̃\/ adv

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tout le temps is anFrenchadv. It means: Sans cesse, toujours. Pronounced \tu lə tɑ̃\.

Key facts for tout le temps
PropertyValue
Headwordtout le temps
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\tu lə tɑ̃\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tout le temps 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 tout le temps is 13 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tu lə tɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sans cesse, toujours.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tout le temps 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 tout le temps, spelled T-O-U-T- -L-E- -T-E-M-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sans cesse, toujours.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tout le temps"?
"tout le temps" is spelled T-O-U-T- -L-E- -T-E-M-P-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tu lə tɑ̃\.
What does "tout le temps" mean?
As an adv, "tout le temps" means: Sans cesse, toujours.
How do you pronounce "tout le temps"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tout le temps" is \tu lə tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tout le temps" 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.