cerfeuil officinal
\sɛʁ.fœj ɔ.fi.si.nal\
The verdict
“cerfeuil officinal” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonyme de cerfeuil, cerfeuil commun (Anthriscus cerefolium (L.) Hoffm.).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerfeuil officinal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.fœj ɔ.fi.si.nal\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cerfeuil officinal” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cerfeuil officinal is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʁ.fœj ɔ.fi.si.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de cerfeuil, cerfeuil commun (Anthriscus cerefolium (L.) Hoffm.).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cerfeuil officinal, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cerfeuil officinal, spelled C-E-R-F-E-U-I-L- -O-F-F-I-C-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de cerfeuil, cerfeuil commun (Anthriscus cerefolium (L.) Hoffm.).
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 “cerfeuil officinal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-E-R-F-E-U-I-L- -O-F-F-I-C-I-N-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛʁ.fœj ɔ.fi.si.nal\ (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.