gant de Notre-Dame
\ɡɑ̃ də nɔ.tʁə.dam\
The verdict
“gant de Notre-Dame” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne dénomination vernaculaire de la digitale pourpre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gant-de-notre-dame · gant de Notre-Dame · French
gant de Notre-Dame · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gant de Notre-Dame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑ̃ də nɔ.tʁə.dam\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
gant de Notre-Dame is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɑ̃ də nɔ.tʁə.dam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for gant de Notre-Dame in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is gant de Notre-Dame, spelled G-A-N-T- -D-E- -N-O-T-R-E---D-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Ancienne dénomination vernaculaire de la digitale pourpre.
- 2Ancienne dénomination vernaculaire de l’ancolie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gant de Notre-Dame appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’espèce la plus intéressante, sous le rapport de ses propriétés médicales, est la Digitale Pourprée (Digitalis purpurea, L.; Lam. ill., t. 515, fig. 1), belle plante bisannuelle qui croit dans les bois montueux aux environs de Paris, où elle fleurit aux mois de juin et de juillet, et que l’on trouve en abondance dans les plaines du Nivernais et d’autres…
Dans ce nombre, on doit distinguer l’ancolie vulgaire (aquilegia vulgaris) , qu’on appelle aussi gant de Notre-Dame , parce que les cinq prolongemens creux et crochus de la corolle simulent , en quelque façon , les doigts d’un gant.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.