faux-cotonnier
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14 characters
Language
French
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faux-cotonnier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Arbuste envahissant, plante dioïque tolérant le sel, dont les graines, qui s’éparpillent en automne, possèdent des poils blancs ressemblant à du coton. Son nom scientifique est Baccharis halimifolia. Pronounced \fo.kɔ.tɔ.nje\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faux-cotonnier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fo.kɔ.tɔ.nje\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for faux-cotonnier is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fo.kɔ.tɔ.nje\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for faux-cotonnier 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 faux-cotonnier, spelled F-A-U-X---C-O-T-O-N-N-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arbuste envahissant, plante dioïque tolérant le sel, dont les graines, qui s’éparpillent en automne, possèdent des poils blancs ressemblant à du coton. Son nom scientifique est Baccharis halimifolia.
- 2Arbre d’Afrique australe au tronc épineux, également surnommé kapokier, dont le fruit est le kapok.
- 3Synonyme de arghel.
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