hamamélis de Virginie
\a.ma.me.lis də viʁ.ʒi.ni\
The verdict
“hamamélis de Virginie” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Arbuste nord-américain à feuilles caduques de la famille des Hamamélidacées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hamamélis de Virginie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ma.me.lis də viʁ.ʒi.ni\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hamamélis de Virginie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hamamélis de Virginie is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ma.me.lis də viʁ.ʒi.ni\. 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: "Arbuste nord-américain à feuilles caduques de la famille des Hamamélidacées.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hamamélis de Virginie 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 hamamélis de Virginie, spelled H-A-M-A-M-É-L-I-S- -D-E- -V-I-R-G-I-N-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arbuste nord-américain à feuilles caduques de la famille des Hamamélidacées.
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