légume sec
The verdict
“légume sec” 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
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Graines issues des gousses des plantes de la famille des Fabacées, également nommées légumineuses, riches en glucides et en protéines récoltées une fois déshydratées pour la consommation humaine. E...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légume sec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.ɡym sɛk\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “légume sec” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for légume sec is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le.ɡym sɛk\. 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: "Graines issues des gousses des plantes de la famille des Fabacées, également nommées légumineuses, riches en glucides et en protéines récoltées une fois déshydratées pour la consommation humaine. E...".
No misspelling variants are generated for légume sec 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 légume sec, spelled L-É-G-U-M-E- -S-E-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Graines issues des gousses des plantes de la famille des Fabacées, également nommées légumineuses, riches en glucides et en protéines récoltées une fois déshydratées pour la consommation humaine. En font partie : les haricots secs, les fèves sèches, les lentilles et les pois, dont les pois chiches.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-É-G-U-M-E- -S-E-C — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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