figuier de Barbarie

/\fi.ɡje də baʁ.ba.ʁi\/ noun

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Language

French

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figuier de Barbarie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom usuel de Opuntia ficus-indica, cactus originaire des haut plateaux secs du Mexique et qui est cultivé pour ses fruits nommées figues de Barbarie. Pronounced \fi.ɡje də baʁ.ba.ʁi\.

Key facts for figuier de Barbarie
PropertyValue
Headwordfiguier de Barbarie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fi.ɡje də baʁ.ba.ʁi\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

figuier de Barbarie is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for figuier de Barbarie is 19 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.ɡje də baʁ.ba.ʁi\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for figuier de Barbarie in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 figuier de Barbarie, spelled F-I-G-U-I-E-R- -D-E- -B-A-R-B-A-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom usuel de Opuntia ficus-indica, cactus originaire des haut plateaux secs du Mexique et qui est cultivé pour ses fruits nommées figues de Barbarie.
  2. 2
    Nom donné à plusieurs espèces de cactus du genre Opuntia, ayant des cladodes en forme de raquettes (cactus raquette) épineuses, naturalisé notamment sur le pourtour méditerranéen et en Afrique du Sud, qui produit un fruit comestible appelé figue de Barbarie.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "figuier de Barbarie"?
"figuier de Barbarie" is spelled F-I-G-U-I-E-R- -D-E- -B-A-R-B-A-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fi.ɡje də baʁ.ba.ʁi\.
What does "figuier de Barbarie" mean?
As a noun, "figuier de Barbarie" means: Nom usuel de Opuntia ficus-indica, cactus originaire des haut plateaux secs du Mexique et qui est cultivé pour ses fruits nommées figues de Barbarie.
How do you pronounce "figuier de Barbarie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "figuier de Barbarie" is \fi.ɡje də baʁ.ba.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "figuier de Barbarie" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.