chou-fleur
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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chou-fleur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Variété de chou dont les rameaux et les fleurs naissants forment une masse blanche et tendre. Pronounced \ʃu.flœʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chou-fleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃu.flœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for chou-fleur is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃu.flœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chou-fleur 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 chou-fleur, spelled C-H-O-U---F-L-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variété de chou dont les rameaux et les fleurs naissants forment une masse blanche et tendre.
- 2Ce rameau d’ébauches de fleurs, utilisés comme légume.
- 3Jeu de cour de récréation où chaque joueur avance tour à tour de la distance exacte d’un pied, le premier en disant chou et le suivant fleur, et ainsi de suite, et où le premier à rejoindre le pied de l’autre a gagné.
- 4Synonyme de clavaire crépue (Sparassis crispa) (espèce de champignons).
- 5Anémone de mer du genre Actinia dont le contact provoque des brûlures. ^([2])
- 6Par analogie d'aspect, nom donné vulgairement au condylome acuminé.
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