cycas du Japon

/\si.kas dy ʒa.pɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“cycas du Japon” 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
14
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: Espèce de plante arborescente ressemblant à un palmier, cultivée comme plante ornementale, utilisée au Japon, malgré sa toxicité à l’état cru, pour confectionner la pâte appelée sagou du Japon ou f...

Key facts for cycas du Japon
PropertyValue
Headwordcycas du Japon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.kas dy ʒa.pɔ̃\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cycas du Japon” sits in French frequency

cycas du Japon falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cycas du Japon is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.kas dy ʒa.pɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce de plante arborescente ressemblant à un palmier, cultivée comme plante ornementale, utilisée au Japon, malgré sa toxicité à l’état cru, pour confectionner la pâte appelée sagou du Japon ou f...".

No misspelling variants are generated for cycas du Japon 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 cycas du Japon, spelled C-Y-C-A-S- -D-U- -J-A-P-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce de plante arborescente ressemblant à un palmier, cultivée comme plante ornementale, utilisée au Japon, malgré sa toxicité à l’état cru, pour confectionner la pâte appelée sagou du Japon ou faux sagou.

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How do you spell "cycas du Japon"?
"cycas du Japon" is spelled C-Y-C-A-S- -D-U- -J-A-P-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \si.kas dy ʒa.pɔ̃\.
What does "cycas du Japon" mean?
As a noun, "cycas du Japon" means: Espèce de plante arborescente ressemblant à un palmier, cultivée comme plante ornementale, utilisée au Japon, malgré sa toxicité à l’état cru, pour confectionner la pâte appelée sagou du Japon ou f...
How do you pronounce "cycas du Japon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cycas du Japon" is \si.kas dy ʒa.pɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “cycas du Japon”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-Y-C-A-S- -D-U- -J-A-P-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \si.kas dy ʒa.pɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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