laurifolié
\lo.ʁi.fɔ.lje\
The verdict
“laurifolié” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont les feuilles persistantes et larges comme celles du laurier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laurifolie · laurifolié · French
laurifolié · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laurifolié |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lo.ʁi.fɔ.lje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
laurifolié is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \lo.ʁi.fɔ.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dont les feuilles persistantes et larges comme celles du laurier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for laurifolié in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is laurifolié, spelled L-A-U-R-I-F-O-L-I-É.
Definition
- 1Dont les feuilles persistantes et larges comme celles du laurier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laurifolié appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour [ Pierre Allorge ], le Chêne-Vert serait devenu xérophile secondairement et « l’on pourrait dire que c’est dans son aire ibero-atlantique que le Chêne-Vert a le mieux conservé son écologie originelle de vieille espèce tertiaire de forêt laurifoliée ».
Cette voie littorale, bénéficiant d'un climat océanique chaud et humide, paraît surtout convenir aux espèces méditerranéennes « hygrophiles », Chêne vert, Chêne-liège, Arbousier, Laurier, Filaire, etc., c'est-à-dire à la flore laurifoliée.— (Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle de Toulouse, Volume 100, 1965, p.14)
Synonyms
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.