patate douce

/\pa.tat dus\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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patate douce is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom usuel de Ipomoea batatas, plante herbacée, volubile, annuelle, de la famille des Convolvulaceae cultivée pour ses tubercules comestibles. Pronounced \pa.tat dus\.

Key facts for patate douce
PropertyValue
Headwordpatate douce
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.tat dus\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

patate douce 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 patate douce is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.tat dus\. 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 patate douce 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 patate douce, spelled P-A-T-A-T-E- -D-O-U-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom usuel de Ipomoea batatas, plante herbacée, volubile, annuelle, de la famille des Convolvulaceae cultivée pour ses tubercules comestibles.
  2. 2
    Le tubercule lui-même.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "patate douce"?
"patate douce" is spelled P-A-T-A-T-E- -D-O-U-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.tat dus\.
What does "patate douce" mean?
As a noun, "patate douce" means: Nom usuel de Ipomoea batatas, plante herbacée, volubile, annuelle, de la famille des Convolvulaceae cultivée pour ses tubercules comestibles.
How do you pronounce "patate douce"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "patate douce" is \pa.tat dus\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "patate douce" 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.