cerisier des bois
\sə.ʁi.zje de bwa\
The verdict
“cerisier des bois” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de merisier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cerisier-des-bois · cerisier des bois · French
cerisier des bois · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerisier des bois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.ʁi.zje de bwa\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cerisier des bois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cerisier des bois is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sə.ʁi.zje de bwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de merisier.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cerisier des bois, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 cerisier des bois, spelled C-E-R-I-S-I-E-R- -D-E-S- -B-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de merisier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cerisier des bois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant c’est dans ces mêmes forêts qu’on trouve en très-grande abondance le cerisier des bois ou merisier, qui est un arbre égal en hauteur aux autres grands arbres des forêts, et que je crois être le type des cerisiers à fruits doux, nommés guignes à Paris.
Le merisier ou cerisier des bois, malgré une croissance rapide en hauteur pendant la jeunesse, finit par se trouver englobé dans les massifs d’autres essences et dépérit à un âge peu avancé, vers 50 ou 60 ans d’ordinaire.
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.