litchi

/\li.tʃi\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#73,305

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

litchi is aFrenchnoun. It means: Non usuel de Litchi chinensis, grand arbre fruitier de la famille des Sapindacées (Sapindaceae), d’origine chinoise, cultivé depuis plus de 4,000 ans. → voir Litchi Pronounced \li.tʃi\.

Key facts for litchi
PropertyValue
Headwordlitchi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\li.tʃi\
Letters6
Frequency rank#73,305
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of litchi in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for litchi is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.tʃi\. Corpus data places it at rank #73,305 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for litchi 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 litchi, spelled L-I-T-C-H-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Non usuel de Litchi chinensis, grand arbre fruitier de la famille des Sapindacées (Sapindaceae), d’origine chinoise, cultivé depuis plus de 4,000 ans. → voir Litchi
  2. 2
    Fruit comestible de cet arbre qui est constitué d’une écorce rose puis brunâtre en vieillissant et qui comporte des écailles (le fruit au sens botanique du terme), sous lesquelles se trouve la partie habituellement consommée, une matière gélatineuse blanche.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #73,305 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "litchi"?
"litchi" is spelled L-I-T-C-H-I. The IPA pronunciation is \li.tʃi\.
What does "litchi" mean?
As a noun, "litchi" means: Non usuel de Litchi chinensis, grand arbre fruitier de la famille des Sapindacées (Sapindaceae), d’origine chinoise, cultivé depuis plus de 4,000 ans. → voir Litchi
How do you pronounce "litchi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "litchi" is \li.tʃi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "litchi" come from?
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Data Source: 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.