nèfle
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5 characters
Language
French
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nèfle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit comestible du néflier (Mespilus germanica) charnu en forme de toupie déprimée au sommet et surmontée des cinq dents persistantes du calice. C’est un piridion : la chair entoure cinq noyaux qu... Pronounced \nɛfl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nèfle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɛfl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for nèfle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɛfl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for nèfle 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 nèfle, spelled N-È-F-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fruit comestible du néflier (Mespilus germanica) charnu en forme de toupie déprimée au sommet et surmontée des cinq dents persistantes du calice. C’est un piridion : la chair entoure cinq noyaux qui contiennent de l’acide cyanhydrique.
- 2Synonyme de nèfle du Japon, fruit du néflier du Japon (Eriobotrya japonica).
- 3Rien ou peu de chose.
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