cœur de palmier
\kœʁ də pal.mje\
The verdict
“cœur de palmier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie centrale de la pousse apicale des palmiers, dont certaines sont comestibles. Ceux du commerce sont généralement issu de Euterpe oleracea.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cœur de palmier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kœʁ də pal.mje\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cœur de palmier” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cœur de palmier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kœʁ də pal.mje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie centrale de la pousse apicale des palmiers, dont certaines sont comestibles. Ceux du commerce sont généralement issu de Euterpe oleracea.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cœur de palmier, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cœur de palmier, spelled C-Œ-U-R- -D-E- -P-A-L-M-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Partie centrale de la pousse apicale des palmiers, dont certaines sont comestibles. Ceux du commerce sont généralement issu de Euterpe oleracea.
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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.
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Using “cœur de palmier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-Œ-U-R- -D-E- -P-A-L-M-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kœʁ də pal.mje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.