beurre de karité
\bœʁ də ka.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“beurre de karité” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Substance comestible extraite des fruits du karité, un arbre poussant dans les savanes arborées de l'Afrique de l'Ouest ; consommé dans la cuisine traditionnelle ou utilisé dans l'industrie du choc...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beurre de karité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bœʁ də ka.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “beurre de karité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for beurre de karité is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bœʁ də ka.ʁi.te\. 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: "Substance comestible extraite des fruits du karité, un arbre poussant dans les savanes arborées de l'Afrique de l'Ouest ; consommé dans la cuisine traditionnelle ou utilisé dans l'industrie du choc...".
No misspelling variants are generated for beurre de karité 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 beurre de karité, spelled B-E-U-R-R-E- -D-E- -K-A-R-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Substance comestible extraite des fruits du karité, un arbre poussant dans les savanes arborées de l'Afrique de l'Ouest ; consommé dans la cuisine traditionnelle ou utilisé dans l'industrie du chocolat comme substitut au beurre de cacao.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-E-U-R-R-E- -D-E- -K-A-R-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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