peau de banane

/\po də ba.nan\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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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\.

Key facts for peau de banane
PropertyValue
Headwordpeau de banane
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\po də ba.nan\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

peau de banane 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 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

  1. 1
    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).
  2. 2
    Piège ou obstacle sournoisement posé pour faire tomber (métaphoriquement) un rival ou un ennemi.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "peau de banane"?
"peau de banane" is spelled P-E-A-U- -D-E- -B-A-N-A-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \po də ba.nan\.
What does "peau de banane" mean?
As a noun, "peau de banane" 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).
How do you pronounce "peau de banane"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "peau de banane" is \po də ba.nan\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "peau de banane" 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.