cycas du Japon
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
- letters
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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cycas du Japon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.kas dy ʒa.pɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cycas du Japon” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Espèce 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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- 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.
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