levure chimique

/\lə.vyʁ ʃi.mik\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

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levure chimique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mélange sous forme de poudre blanche, composé essentiellement de bicarbonate de soude et servant à faire gonfler pâtes et gâteaux. Pronounced \lə.vyʁ ʃi.mik\.

Key facts for levure chimique
PropertyValue
Headwordlevure chimique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lə.vyʁ ʃi.mik\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

levure chimique is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for levure chimique is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə.vyʁ ʃi.mik\. 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: "Mélange sous forme de poudre blanche, composé essentiellement de bicarbonate de soude et servant à faire gonfler pâtes et gâteaux.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for levure chimique 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 levure chimique, spelled L-E-V-U-R-E- -C-H-I-M-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mélange sous forme de poudre blanche, composé essentiellement de bicarbonate de soude et servant à faire gonfler pâtes et gâteaux.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "levure chimique"?
"levure chimique" is spelled L-E-V-U-R-E- -C-H-I-M-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \lə.vyʁ ʃi.mik\.
What does "levure chimique" mean?
As a noun, "levure chimique" means: Mélange sous forme de poudre blanche, composé essentiellement de bicarbonate de soude et servant à faire gonfler pâtes et gâteaux.
How do you pronounce "levure chimique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "levure chimique" is \lə.vyʁ ʃi.mik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "levure chimique" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.