framboise

/\fʁɑ̃.bwaz\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#25,657

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

framboise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit agrégé très parfumé du framboisier constitué d’une dizaine de minuscules bulles (drupes) pleines de pulpe recouvertes de poils microscopiques qui lui donnent son aspect velouté. Pronounced \fʁɑ̃.bwaz\. Often confused with Françoise and framboises.

Key facts for framboise
PropertyValue
Headwordframboise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fʁɑ̃.bwaz\
Letters9
Frequency rank#25,657
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of framboise in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for framboise is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɑ̃.bwaz\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,657 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for framboise, with forms such as "farmboise", "fframboise", and "frabmoise". 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 also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Françoise", "framboises", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 framboise, spelled F-R-A-M-B-O-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fruit agrégé très parfumé du framboisier constitué d’une dizaine de minuscules bulles (drupes) pleines de pulpe recouvertes de poils microscopiques qui lui donnent son aspect velouté.
  2. 2
    Framboisier.
  3. 3
    Clitoris.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: farmboise,fframboise,frabmoise,frambboise,frambiose,framboies,framboisse,frambosie,frammboise,framobise,frmaboise,frramboise,rfamboise

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for framboise

Misspelling Variants of "framboise"

farmboise9fframboise10frabmoise9frambboise10frambiose9framboies9framboisse10frambosie9
Misspelling Variants of "framboise"

Frequency rank: #25,657 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "framboise"?
"framboise" is spelled F-R-A-M-B-O-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁɑ̃.bwaz\.
What does "framboise" mean?
As a noun, "framboise" means: Fruit agrégé très parfumé du framboisier constitué d’une dizaine de minuscules bulles (drupes) pleines de pulpe recouvertes de poils microscopiques qui lui donnent son aspect velouté.
What words are commonly confused with "framboise"?
"framboise" is commonly confused with "Françoise", "framboises". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "framboise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "framboise" is \fʁɑ̃.bwaz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "framboise" 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.