gantelée
The verdict
“gantelée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de la campanule gantelée, Campanula trachelium.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gantelee · gantelée · French
gantelée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | gantelée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
gantelée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for gantelée in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gantelée, spelled G-A-N-T-E-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de la campanule gantelée, Campanula trachelium.
- 2Nom vernaculaire de la digitale pourpre, Digitalis purpurea ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gantelée 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…
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.