fenouil
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,432
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
fenouil is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante aromatique, de la famille des Apiacées, qui porte des fleurs jaunes et qui croît surtout dans le midi de l’Europe, de nom scientifique Foeniculum vulgare. Pronounced \fə.nuj\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fenouil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fə.nuj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fenouil is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fə.nuj\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,432 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for fenouil, with forms such as "efnouil", "fennouil", and "fenoiul". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 fenouil, spelled F-E-N-O-U-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante aromatique, de la famille des Apiacées, qui porte des fleurs jaunes et qui croît surtout dans le midi de l’Europe, de nom scientifique Foeniculum vulgare.
- 2Feuilles de cette plante utilisées comme aromate.
- 3Base renflée des pétioles, utilisée comme un légume.
- 4Il se prend aussi pour la graine de la même plante.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efnouil,fennouil,fenoiul,fenouill,fenouli,fenuoil,feonuil,ffenouil,fneouil
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Misspelling Variants of "fenouil"
Frequency rank: #43,432 in French
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