fruit sec
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9 characters
Language
French
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fruit sec is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit à teneur en eau réduite, ce qui leur permet une longue conservation. Note d’usage : Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel. Pronounced \fʁɥi sɛk\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fruit sec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɥi sɛk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for fruit sec is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɥi sɛk\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for fruit sec 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 fruit sec, spelled F-R-U-I-T- -S-E-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fruit à teneur en eau réduite, ce qui leur permet une longue conservation. Note d’usage : Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel.
- 2Type de fruit dont la paroi des carpelles est sèche à maturité.
- 3Élève qui n’a pas satisfait aux examens de sortie, par extension individu incapable, fainéant, sans avenir.
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