oseille de Guinée
The verdict
“oseille de Guinée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nom usuel d'une plante herbacée de la famille des Malvaceae, nommée Hibiscus sabdariffa, originaire du Soudan, dont les fleurs servent à préparer une boisson (bissap ou karkadé) consommée dans une ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oseille de Guinée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.zɛj də ɡi.ne\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oseille de Guinée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oseille de Guinée is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.zɛj də ɡi.ne\. 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: "Nom usuel d'une plante herbacée de la famille des Malvaceae, nommée Hibiscus sabdariffa, originaire du Soudan, dont les fleurs servent à préparer une boisson (bissap ou karkadé) consommée dans une ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for oseille de Guinée 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 oseille de Guinée, spelled O-S-E-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -G-U-I-N-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel d'une plante herbacée de la famille des Malvaceae, nommée Hibiscus sabdariffa, originaire du Soudan, dont les fleurs servent à préparer une boisson (bissap ou karkadé) consommée dans une grande partie de l’Afrique. Les feuilles mucillagineuses sont employées en Afrique comme légumes, pour la préparation de soupe et de sauces. Les graines fournissent de l'huile utilisée en cuisine au Tchad bien que très légèrement toxique.
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- The one correct French spelling is O-S-E-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -G-U-I-N-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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