graine de paradis
\ɡʁɛn də pa.ʁa.di\
The verdict
“graine de paradis” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Graines de maniguette, épice originaire d’Afrique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graine de paradis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛn də pa.ʁa.di\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “graine de paradis” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for graine de paradis is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɛn də pa.ʁa.di\. 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: "Graines de maniguette, épice originaire d’Afrique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for graine de paradis 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 graine de paradis, spelled G-R-A-I-N-E- -D-E- -P-A-R-A-D-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Graines de maniguette, épice originaire d’Afrique.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-I-N-E- -D-E- -P-A-R-A-D-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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