navet du diable
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15 characters
Language
French
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | navet du diable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.vɛ dy djɑbl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Racine purgative de la bryone (plante de nom scientifique Bryonia cretica dioica ou bryone dioïque ^([1])).
- 2Œnanthe safranée (plante de nom scientifique Oenanthe crocata).
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