blé de Turquie
\ble də tyʁ.ki\
The verdict
“blé de Turquie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné improprement au maïs, qui est originaire non de la Turquie, mais du Nouveau Monde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ble-de-turquie · blé de Turquie · French
blé de Turquie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" 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 | blé de Turquie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ble də tyʁ.ki\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
blé de Turquie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ble də tyʁ.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for blé de Turquie in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is blé de Turquie, spelled B-L-É- -D-E- -T-U-R-Q-U-I-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné improprement au maïs, qui est originaire non de la Turquie, mais du Nouveau Monde.
- 2Nom donné au sarrasin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blé de Turquie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le maïs & le sarasin sont encore des grains auxquels on donne le nom de blé : l’un s’appelle blé de Turquie & blé d’Inde, & l’autre blé noir.
Blé de Turquie, qu’on appelle autrement Mays, ou blé d’Inde.
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.