laiteron épineux
\lɛ.tʁɔ̃ e.pi.nø\
The verdict
“laiteron épineux” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nom usuel de Sonchus asper, plante herbacée, annuelle de la famille des Asteraceae (Astéracées) dont les feuilles sont mangées crues ou cuites en Afrique, à Madagascar le latex est utilisé pour soi...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laiteron épineux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ.tʁɔ̃ e.pi.nø\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laiteron épineux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for laiteron épineux is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ.tʁɔ̃ e.pi.nø\. 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: "Nom usuel de Sonchus asper, plante herbacée, annuelle de la famille des Asteraceae (Astéracées) dont les feuilles sont mangées crues ou cuites en Afrique, à Madagascar le latex est utilisé pour soi...".
No misspelling variants are generated for laiteron épineux 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 laiteron épineux, spelled L-A-I-T-E-R-O-N- -É-P-I-N-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel de Sonchus asper, plante herbacée, annuelle de la famille des Asteraceae (Astéracées) dont les feuilles sont mangées crues ou cuites en Afrique, à Madagascar le latex est utilisé pour soigner les verrues.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-I-T-E-R-O-N- -É-P-I-N-E-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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