bois de pipe

/\bwa də pip\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

bois de pipe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Un des noms donnés à la clématite des haies (Clematis vitalba), dont le bois pouvait être fumé. Pronounced \bwa də pip\.

Key facts for bois de pipe
PropertyValue
Headwordbois de pipe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bwa də pip\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bois de pipe is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bois de pipe is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bwa də pip\. 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: "Un des noms donnés à la clématite des haies (Clematis vitalba), dont le bois pouvait être fumé.".

No misspelling variants are generated for bois de pipe 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 bois de pipe, spelled B-O-I-S- -D-E- -P-I-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Un des noms donnés à la clématite des haies (Clematis vitalba), dont le bois pouvait être fumé.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bois de pipe"?
"bois de pipe" is spelled B-O-I-S- -D-E- -P-I-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bwa də pip\.
What does "bois de pipe" mean?
As a noun, "bois de pipe" means: Un des noms donnés à la clématite des haies (Clematis vitalba), dont le bois pouvait être fumé.
How do you pronounce "bois de pipe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bois de pipe" is \bwa də pip\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bois de pipe" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.