noix de coco

/\nwa də ko.ko\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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noix de coco is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit du cocotier. Pronounced \nwa də ko.ko\.

Key facts for noix de coco
PropertyValue
Headwordnoix de coco
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nwa də ko.ko\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

noix de coco 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 noix de coco is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nwa də ko.ko\. 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 noix de coco 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 noix de coco, spelled N-O-I-X- -D-E- -C-O-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fruit du cocotier.
  2. 2
    Stéréotype ou insulte visant des « Noirs » dont le comportement et les représentations réelles ou supposées sont celles de « Blancs ». (Noir à l’extérieur, blanc à l’intérieur).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "noix de coco"?
"noix de coco" is spelled N-O-I-X- -D-E- -C-O-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is \nwa də ko.ko\.
What does "noix de coco" mean?
As a noun, "noix de coco" means: Fruit du cocotier.
How do you pronounce "noix de coco"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "noix de coco" is \nwa də ko.ko\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "noix de coco" 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.