tout-puissant
\tu.pɥi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“tout-puissant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Omnipotent, qui a un très grand pouvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tout-puissant · tout-puissant · French
tout-puissant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « tout-puissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tout-puissant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tu.pɥi.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tout-puissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et tous, me voyant en bons termes avec le maître tout-puissant, sont pour moi pleins d'amabilité et de prévenances.
De tous ces événements qui lui étaient arrivés, ce qui lui semblait surnager, c’était plus que jamais la nécessité urgente de se mettre sous la sauvegarde d’un tout-puissant protecteur comme Concini, maréchal d’Ancre.
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.