lycose de Tarente
\li.koz də ta.ʁɑ̃t\
The verdict
“lycose de Tarente” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Araignée du sous-ordre des Aranéomorphes de la famille des Lycosidae.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lycose de Tarente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.koz də ta.ʁɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lycose de Tarente” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lycose de Tarente is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.koz də ta.ʁɑ̃t\. 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: "Araignée du sous-ordre des Aranéomorphes de la famille des Lycosidae.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lycose de Tarente 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 lycose de Tarente, spelled L-Y-C-O-S-E- -D-E- -T-A-R-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Araignée du sous-ordre des Aranéomorphes de la famille des Lycosidae.
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.
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