haricot de Lima
\a.ʁi.ko də lima\
The verdict
“haricot de Lima” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nom usuel de Phaseolus lunatus et de ses cultivars, plante herbacée annuelle de la famille des Fabaceae (Fabacées), cultivée dans les pays chauds pour ses graines consommées comme légume à l'instar...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haricot de Lima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁi.ko də lima\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “haricot de Lima” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for haricot de Lima is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁi.ko də lima\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for haricot de Lima 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 haricot de Lima, spelled H-A-R-I-C-O-T- -D-E- -L-I-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel de Phaseolus lunatus et de ses cultivars, plante herbacée annuelle de la famille des Fabaceae (Fabacées), cultivée dans les pays chauds pour ses graines consommées comme légume à l'instar du haricot commun.
- 2Nom donné aux graines de cette plante qui sont comestibles après trempage et cuisson (selon les variétés).
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- The one correct French spelling is H-A-R-I-C-O-T- -D-E- -L-I-M-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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