gomme arabique

/\ɡɔ.m‿a.ʁa.bik\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

gomme arabique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Gomme alimentaire extraite de la sève d’acacia. Pronounced \ɡɔ.m‿a.ʁa.bik\.

Key facts for gomme arabique
PropertyValue
Headwordgomme arabique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡɔ.m‿a.ʁa.bik\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

gomme arabique 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 gomme arabique is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɔ.m‿a.ʁa.bik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gomme alimentaire extraite de la sève d’acacia.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gomme arabique 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 gomme arabique, spelled G-O-M-M-E- -A-R-A-B-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gomme alimentaire extraite de la sève d’acacia.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gomme arabique"?
"gomme arabique" is spelled G-O-M-M-E- -A-R-A-B-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡɔ.m‿a.ʁa.bik\.
What does "gomme arabique" mean?
As a noun, "gomme arabique" means: Gomme alimentaire extraite de la sève d’acacia.
How do you pronounce "gomme arabique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gomme arabique" is \ɡɔ.m‿a.ʁa.bik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gomme arabique" 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.