fleur de vin

/\flœʁ də vɛ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

fleur de vin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Variante de fleur du vin : petites moisissures qui paraissent sur le vin au contact de l’air, dans les tonneaux ou dans les bouteilles. Pronounced \flœʁ də vɛ̃\.

Key facts for fleur de vin
PropertyValue
Headwordfleur de vin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\flœʁ də vɛ̃\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fleur de vin 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 fleur de vin is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flœʁ də vɛ̃\. 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: "Variante de fleur du vin : petites moisissures qui paraissent sur le vin au contact de l’air, dans les tonneaux ou dans les bouteilles.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fleur de vin 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 fleur de vin, spelled F-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -V-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de fleur du vin : petites moisissures qui paraissent sur le vin au contact de l’air, dans les tonneaux ou dans les bouteilles.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fleur de vin"?
"fleur de vin" is spelled F-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -V-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \flœʁ də vɛ̃\.
What does "fleur de vin" mean?
As a noun, "fleur de vin" means: Variante de fleur du vin : petites moisissures qui paraissent sur le vin au contact de l’air, dans les tonneaux ou dans les bouteilles.
How do you pronounce "fleur de vin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fleur de vin" is \flœʁ də vɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fleur de vin" 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.