huile de palme
\ɥil də palm\
The verdict
“huile de palme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Huile obtenue par pression de la pulpe des drupes du palmier à huile (du genre Elaeis), ce qui laisse un sous-produit, le tourteau de palme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huile de palme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɥil də palm\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “huile de palme” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
huile de palme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɥil də palm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Huile obtenue par pression de la pulpe des drupes du palmier à huile (du genre Elaeis), ce qui laisse un sous-produit, le tourteau de palme.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for huile de palme in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is huile de palme, spelled H-U-I-L-E- -D-E- -P-A-L-M-E.
Definition
- 1Huile obtenue par pression de la pulpe des drupes du palmier à huile (du genre Elaeis), ce qui laisse un sous-produit, le tourteau de palme.
This word in other languages
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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Using “huile de palme”
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- The one correct French spelling is H-U-I-L-E- -D-E- -P-A-L-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɥil də palm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.