yours truly
The verdict
“yours truly” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Formule de politesse pour finir les lettres. Amicalement, cordialement, sincèrement vôtre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yours truly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ˌjɔɹz ˈtɹu.li\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yours truly” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for yours truly is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˌjɔɹz ˈtɹu.li\. 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: "Formule de politesse pour finir les lettres. Amicalement, cordialement, sincèrement vôtre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for yours truly in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 yours truly, spelled Y-O-U-R-S- -T-R-U-L-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Formule de politesse pour finir les lettres. Amicalement, cordialement, sincèrement vôtre.
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Using “yours truly”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Y-O-U-R-S- -T-R-U-L-Y — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˌjɔɹz ˈtɹu.li\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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