ébène du Mozambique
The verdict
“ébène du Mozambique” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nom vernaculaire de Dalbergia melanoxylon, petit arbre au feuillage caduc, de la famille des Fabacées (Fabaceae) originaire des zones chaudes et sèches de l’Afrique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ébène du Mozambique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.bɛn dy mɔ.zɑ̃.bik\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ébène du Mozambique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ébène du Mozambique is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.bɛn dy mɔ.zɑ̃.bik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for ébène du Mozambique 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 ébène du Mozambique, spelled É-B-È-N-E- -D-U- -M-O-Z-A-M-B-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de Dalbergia melanoxylon, petit arbre au feuillage caduc, de la famille des Fabacées (Fabaceae) originaire des zones chaudes et sèches de l’Afrique.
- 2Bois très foncé de cet arbre.
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Using “ébène du Mozambique”
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- The one correct French spelling is É-B-È-N-E- -D-U- -M-O-Z-A-M-B-I-Q-U-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.bɛn dy mɔ.zɑ̃.bik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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