coussin de belle-mère
The verdict
“coussin de belle-mère” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nom vernaculaire ironique donné à certaines espèces de cactus telles Melocactus intortus ^([1]) et au rarissime Echinocactus grusonii ^([2]).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coussin de belle-mère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.sɛ̃ də bɛl.mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coussin de belle-mère” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for coussin de belle-mère is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.sɛ̃ də bɛl.mɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for coussin de belle-mère in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 coussin de belle-mère, spelled C-O-U-S-S-I-N- -D-E- -B-E-L-L-E---M-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire ironique donné à certaines espèces de cactus telles Melocactus intortus ^([1]) et au rarissime Echinocactus grusonii ^([2]).
- 2Synonyme de astragale de Marseille (espèce de plantes).
- 3Synonyme de acanthaster pourpre (espèce d’étoile de mer).
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Using “coussin de belle-mère”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-U-S-S-I-N- -D-E- -B-E-L-L-E---M-È-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ku.sɛ̃ də bɛl.mɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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