fleur des pois

/\flœʁ dɛ pwa\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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fleur des pois is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualifie une personne à qui sa situation sociale, son élégance, donnent une place en vue dans le grand monde. Pronounced \flœʁ dɛ pwa\.

Key facts for fleur des pois
PropertyValue
Headwordfleur des pois
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\flœʁ dɛ pwa\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fleur des pois 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 des pois is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flœʁ dɛ pwa\. 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 fleur des pois 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 des pois, spelled F-L-E-U-R- -D-E-S- -P-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualifie une personne à qui sa situation sociale, son élégance, donnent une place en vue dans le grand monde.
  2. 2
    (Collectivement) Ces personnes.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fleur des pois"?
"fleur des pois" is spelled F-L-E-U-R- -D-E-S- -P-O-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \flœʁ dɛ pwa\.
What does "fleur des pois" mean?
As a noun, "fleur des pois" means: Qualifie une personne à qui sa situation sociale, son élégance, donnent une place en vue dans le grand monde.
How do you pronounce "fleur des pois"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fleur des pois" is \flœʁ dɛ pwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fleur des pois" 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.