neem
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4 characters
Language
French
word origin
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neem is aFrenchnoun. It means: Un des noms vernaculaires dAzadirachta indica arbre des régions tropicales et subtropicales de la famille des Méliacées (comme le mahogany). Originaire d’Inde orientale il est de plus en plus culti... Pronounced \nim\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nim\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for neem is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nim\. 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: "Un des noms vernaculaires dAzadirachta indica arbre des régions tropicales et subtropicales de la famille des Méliacées (comme le mahogany). Originaire d’Inde orientale il est de plus en plus culti...".
No misspelling variants are generated for neem 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 neem, spelled N-E-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Un des noms vernaculaires dAzadirachta indica arbre des régions tropicales et subtropicales de la famille des Méliacées (comme le mahogany). Originaire d’Inde orientale il est de plus en plus cultivé en Afrique, en Australie et en Amérique Latine.
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