jabí
Letters
4 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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jabí is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom vernaculaire de Guibourtia hymenaefolia, arbre de la famille des Fabacées. Ses fleurs violettes donnent des gousses contenant des graines. Ses racines ont un usage médicinal comme analgésique e... Pronounced \xa.'bi\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jabí |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \xa.'bi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for jabí is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \xa.'bi\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jabí in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 jabí, spelled J-A-B-Í, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de Guibourtia hymenaefolia, arbre de la famille des Fabacées. Ses fleurs violettes donnent des gousses contenant des graines. Ses racines ont un usage médicinal comme analgésique et son bois rouge sert en charpenterie de marine.
- 2Nom vernaculaire de Piscidia piscipula, arbre de la famille des Fabacées aux fleurs roses violacées qui donnent des gousses contenant des graines. Il est connu pour ses vertues sédatives et analgésiques.
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