adelphe
\a.dɛlf\
The verdict
“adelphe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont les filets sont soudés ensemble, en parlant des étamines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adelphe · adelphe · French
adelphe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" 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 | adelphe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.dɛlf\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adelphe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adelphe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.dɛlf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for adelphe, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is adelphe, spelled A-D-E-L-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Dont les filets sont soudés ensemble, en parlant des étamines.
- 2Autre, controlatéral, dans le cas d’organes pairs.
- 3Adelphique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adelphe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ferai observer que l’adhérence des anthères, n’est jamais très-forte et, dans tous les cas, ne constitue pas une confluence complète, comparable à celle qu’ont subie les filets dans les étamines adelphes.
Cette pneumopathie d’abord, l’épanchement ensuite, la compression du poumon malade et du poumon adelphe, l’intoxication myocarde déterminent une dyspnée plus ou moins grave.
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.