baguette de coudrier
The verdict
“baguette de coudrier” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Baguette divinatoire en bois de coudrier. à l’aide duquel les sourciers pensent pouvoir découvrir des eaux souterraines.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baguette de coudrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ɡɛt də ku.dʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baguette de coudrier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baguette de coudrier is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ɡɛt də ku.dʁi.je\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for baguette de coudrier 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 baguette de coudrier, spelled B-A-G-U-E-T-T-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-D-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Baguette divinatoire en bois de coudrier. à l’aide duquel les sourciers pensent pouvoir découvrir des eaux souterraines.
- 2Baguette servant au sourcier pour localiser une veine d’eau souterraine.
- 3Baguette utilisée pour mesurer ou arpenter.
- 4Baguette utilisée pour divers autres usages.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-G-U-E-T-T-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-D-R-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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