laurier-rose
\lɔ.ʁje.ʁoz\
The verdict
“laurier-rose” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom vulgaire de Nerium oleander, arbuste ornemental de la famille des Apocynacées. Ce laurier, très toxique, porte des fleurs de couleur rose, il existe de nombreux cultivars aux fleurs blanches, j...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laurier-rose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ʁje.ʁoz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laurier-rose” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
laurier-rose is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔ.ʁje.ʁoz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for laurier-rose in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 laurier-rose, spelled L-A-U-R-I-E-R---R-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire de Nerium oleander, arbuste ornemental de la famille des Apocynacées. Ce laurier, très toxique, porte des fleurs de couleur rose, il existe de nombreux cultivars aux fleurs blanches, jaunes ou rouges.
- 2Nom vernaculaire de Podocarpus coriaceus, arbre sempervirent des Caraïbes.
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 “laurier-rose”
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-U-R-I-E-R---R-O-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lɔ.ʁje.ʁoz\ (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.