tout-puissant
\tu.pɥi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“tout-puissant” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Omnipotent, qui a un très grand pouvoir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tout-puissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tu.pɥi.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tout-puissant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tout-puissant is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tu.pɥi.sɑ̃\. 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.
tout-puissant has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tout-puissant, spelled T-O-U-T---P-U-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Omnipotent, qui a un très grand pouvoir.
- 2Qui a une puissance absolue et illimitée.
This word in other languages
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-puissant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-U-T---P-U-I-S-S-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tu.pɥi.sɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.