noix de cajou

/\nwa d‿ka.ʒu\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

noix de cajou is aFrenchnoun. It means: Akène de l'anacardier se développant en premier à l'extrémité d'un pédoncule juteux et comestible lui aussi qui est un faux-fruit appelé pomme de cajou. Pronounced \nwa d‿ka.ʒu\.

Key facts for noix de cajou
PropertyValue
Headwordnoix de cajou
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nwa d‿ka.ʒu\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

noix de cajou is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for noix de cajou is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nwa d‿ka.ʒu\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for noix de cajou 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 noix de cajou, spelled N-O-I-X- -D-E- -C-A-J-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Akène de l'anacardier se développant en premier à l'extrémité d'un pédoncule juteux et comestible lui aussi qui est un faux-fruit appelé pomme de cajou.
  2. 2
    Amande contenue dans cet akène.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "noix de cajou"?
"noix de cajou" is spelled N-O-I-X- -D-E- -C-A-J-O-U. The IPA pronunciation is \nwa d‿ka.ʒu\.
What does "noix de cajou" mean?
As a noun, "noix de cajou" means: Akène de l'anacardier se développant en premier à l'extrémité d'un pédoncule juteux et comestible lui aussi qui est un faux-fruit appelé pomme de cajou.
How do you pronounce "noix de cajou"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "noix de cajou" is \nwa d‿ka.ʒu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "noix de cajou" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.