citronnelle
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,826
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
citronnelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Artemisia abrotanum, l’aurone ^([4]). Pronounced \si.tʁɔ.nɛl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | citronnelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.tʁɔ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for citronnelle is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.tʁɔ.nɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #57,826 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for citronnelle 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 citronnelle, spelled C-I-T-R-O-N-N-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Artemisia abrotanum, l’aurone ^([4]).
- 2Melissa officinalis, la mélisse ^([4]).
- 3Thymus cv., le thym citron.
- 4Cymbopogon, genre de plantes herbacées tropicales de la famille des Poacées.
- 5Aloysia citriodora anciennement Lippia citriodora.
- 6Parfois synonyme de mélitte à feuilles de mélisse (Melittis melissophyllum)(local).
- 7Cymbopogon citratus et Cymbopogon nardus, espèces cultivées pour leurs tiges et feuilles aux qualités aromatiques (à goût de citron) et réputées être un répulsif pour les moustiques.
- 8Liqueur préparée avec des écorces de citron infusées, nommée autrefois eau des Barbades.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #57,826 in French
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