feuille-morte du pin
\fœj.mɔʁt dy pɛ̃\
The verdict
“feuille-morte du pin” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Synonyme de bombyx du pin (papillon).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feuille-morte du pin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fœj.mɔʁt dy pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “feuille-morte du pin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for feuille-morte du pin is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fœj.mɔʁt dy pɛ̃\. 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: "Synonyme de bombyx du pin (papillon).".
No misspelling variants are generated for feuille-morte du pin 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 feuille-morte du pin, spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-E---M-O-R-T-E- -D-U- -P-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de bombyx du pin (papillon).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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