herbe aux engelures
The verdict
“herbe aux engelures” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Synonyme de jusquiame noire (espèce de plantes).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herbe aux engelures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.b‿o.z‿ɑ̃ʒ.lyʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “herbe aux engelures” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for herbe aux engelures is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛʁ.b‿o.z‿ɑ̃ʒ.lyʁ\. 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: "Synonyme de jusquiame noire (espèce de plantes).".
No misspelling variants are generated for herbe aux engelures 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 herbe aux engelures, spelled H-E-R-B-E- -A-U-X- -E-N-G-E-L-U-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de jusquiame noire (espèce de plantes).
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-E-R-B-E- -A-U-X- -E-N-G-E-L-U-R-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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