litchi
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | litchi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.tʃi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Non 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
- 2Fruit 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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Frequency rank: #73,305 in French
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