dentelaire
\dɑ̃.tlɛʁ\
The verdict
“dentelaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire du plumbago d’Europe et d’espèces voisines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dentelaire · dentelaire · French
dentelaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dentelaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.tlɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
dentelaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɑ̃.tlɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom vernaculaire du plumbago d’Europe et d’espèces voisines.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dentelaire, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dentelaire, spelled D-E-N-T-E-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire du plumbago d’Europe et d’espèces voisines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dentelaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vlooienkruid, n. [H n.] Herbe aux puces f., plantain pucier ou pulicaire, psyllion m. (Plantago psyllium) ; aunée ou inule pulicaire (Inula pulicaria) ; — pulicaire f. (Pulicaria) ; persicaire f., curage, piment ou poivre d’eau m. (Polygonum hydropiper), herbe au cancer, dentelaire f. (Plumbago europæa), conise ou conyze f. (Conyza). — Chasse-puce, poulio…
Nous traiterons ici la dentelaire vivace légèrement arbustive et couvre-sol. Elle ne craint pas le gel et possède de magnifiques fleurs bleu gentiane en été et en automne.
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