daphné des Alpes
\daf.ne dɛ zal.p\
The verdict
“daphné des Alpes” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Arbuste bas du genre Daphne (Thyméléacées), à feuilles caduques, se reconnaissant à sa floraison printanière de fleurs pâles apparaissant avant ou en même temps que les feuilles, et présent surtout...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | daphné des Alpes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \daf.ne dɛ zal.p\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “daphné des Alpes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for daphné des Alpes is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \daf.ne dɛ zal.p\. 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: "Arbuste bas du genre Daphne (Thyméléacées), à feuilles caduques, se reconnaissant à sa floraison printanière de fleurs pâles apparaissant avant ou en même temps que les feuilles, et présent surtout...".
No misspelling variants are generated for daphné des Alpes 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 daphné des Alpes, spelled D-A-P-H-N-É- -D-E-S- -A-L-P-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arbuste bas du genre Daphne (Thyméléacées), à feuilles caduques, se reconnaissant à sa floraison printanière de fleurs pâles apparaissant avant ou en même temps que les feuilles, et présent surtout dans les massifs calcaires des Alpes et des chaînes montagneuses d’Europe méridionale et centrale, notamment les Pyrénées et les Balkans.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-P-H-N-É- -D-E-S- -A-L-P-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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