navet du diable

/\na.vɛ dy djɑbl\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

navet du diable is aFrenchnoun. It means: Racine purgative de la bryone (plante de nom scientifique Bryonia cretica dioica ou bryone dioïque ^([1])). Pronounced \na.vɛ dy djɑbl\.

Key facts for navet du diable
PropertyValue
Headwordnavet du diable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\na.vɛ dy djɑbl\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

navet du diable 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 navet du diable is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \na.vɛ dy djɑbl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for navet du diable 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 navet du diable, spelled N-A-V-E-T- -D-U- -D-I-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Racine purgative de la bryone (plante de nom scientifique Bryonia cretica dioica ou bryone dioïque ^([1])).
  2. 2
    Œnanthe safranée (plante de nom scientifique Oenanthe crocata).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "navet du diable"?
"navet du diable" is spelled N-A-V-E-T- -D-U- -D-I-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \na.vɛ dy djɑbl\.
What does "navet du diable" mean?
As a noun, "navet du diable" means: Racine purgative de la bryone (plante de nom scientifique Bryonia cretica dioica ou bryone dioïque ^([1])).
How do you pronounce "navet du diable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "navet du diable" is \na.vɛ dy djɑbl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "navet du diable" 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.