pain de poisson

/\pɛ̃ də pwa.son\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

pain de poisson is aFrenchnoun. It means: Préparation à base de filet de poisson — généralement un poisson blanc — pouvant ou nom inclure du pain, des œufs, du fromage, préparé dans un moule à cake et servi chaud ou le plus souvent froid. Pronounced \pɛ̃ də pwa.son\.

Key facts for pain de poisson
PropertyValue
Headwordpain de poisson
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛ̃ də pwa.son\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pain de poisson 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 pain de poisson is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ̃ də pwa.son\. 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: "Préparation à base de filet de poisson — généralement un poisson blanc — pouvant ou nom inclure du pain, des œufs, du fromage, préparé dans un moule à cake et servi chaud ou le plus souvent froid.".

No misspelling variants are generated for pain de poisson 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 pain de poisson, spelled P-A-I-N- -D-E- -P-O-I-S-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Préparation à base de filet de poisson — généralement un poisson blanc — pouvant ou nom inclure du pain, des œufs, du fromage, préparé dans un moule à cake et servi chaud ou le plus souvent froid.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pain de poisson"?
"pain de poisson" is spelled P-A-I-N- -D-E- -P-O-I-S-S-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛ̃ də pwa.son\.
What does "pain de poisson" mean?
As a noun, "pain de poisson" means: Préparation à base de filet de poisson — généralement un poisson blanc — pouvant ou nom inclure du pain, des œufs, du fromage, préparé dans un moule à cake et servi chaud ou le plus souvent froid.
How do you pronounce "pain de poisson"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pain de poisson" is \pɛ̃ də pwa.son\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pain de poisson" 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.