peau de banane
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14 characters
Language
French
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peau de banane is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie externe de la banane (exocarpe, jaune et mince, soudé au mésocarpe, blanc et mou) que l’on ôte pour manger la partie comestible du fruit (endocarpe). Pronounced \po də ba.nan\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peau de banane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \po də ba.nan\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for peau de banane is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \po də ba.nan\. 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 peau de banane 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 peau de banane, spelled P-E-A-U- -D-E- -B-A-N-A-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie externe de la banane (exocarpe, jaune et mince, soudé au mésocarpe, blanc et mou) que l’on ôte pour manger la partie comestible du fruit (endocarpe).
- 2Piège ou obstacle sournoisement posé pour faire tomber (métaphoriquement) un rival ou un ennemi.
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