carambole
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
carambole is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit comestible du carambolier, baie à cinq carpelles soudés dont la section forme une étoile et contenant chacun deux graines plates. Selon les variétés, plus ou moins acidulées, il est utilisé e... Pronounced \ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carambole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for carambole is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁɑ̃.bɔl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for carambole in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 carambole, spelled C-A-R-A-M-B-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fruit comestible du carambolier, baie à cinq carpelles soudés dont la section forme une étoile et contenant chacun deux graines plates. Selon les variétés, plus ou moins acidulées, il est utilisé en jus ou en salade de fruit, en confiture ou dans des sauces.
- 2Synonyme de poireau d’été, Allium ampeloprasum ^([1]).
- 3Bille rouge qui se place sur la mouche centrale.
- 4Partie de billard qui se joue avec cette bille et deux autres généralement blanches, billard français.
- 5Action de caramboler, dégringolade.
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