bombyx du mûrier
\bɔ̃.biks dy my.ʁje\
The verdict
“bombyx du mûrier” 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) — Lépidoptère domestique originaire du nord de la Chine, élevé pour produire la soie. Le ver à soie est sa chenille. Le bombyx est inconnu à l’état sauvage ; il résulte de la sélection par élevage ap...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bombyx du mûrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.biks dy my.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bombyx du mûrier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bombyx du mûrier is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ̃.biks dy my.ʁje\. 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: "Lépidoptère domestique originaire du nord de la Chine, élevé pour produire la soie. Le ver à soie est sa chenille. Le bombyx est inconnu à l’état sauvage ; il résulte de la sélection par élevage ap...".
No misspelling variants are generated for bombyx du mûrier 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 bombyx du mûrier, spelled B-O-M-B-Y-X- -D-U- -M-Û-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lépidoptère domestique originaire du nord de la Chine, élevé pour produire la soie. Le ver à soie est sa chenille. Le bombyx est inconnu à l’état sauvage ; il résulte de la sélection par élevage appelé sériciculture.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-M-B-Y-X- -D-U- -M-Û-R-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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