perle du Japon

/\pɛʁl dy ʒa.pɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

perle du Japon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petites billes alimentaires confectionnées avec de la farine de manioc et parfois colorées. Pronounced \pɛʁl dy ʒa.pɔ̃\.

Key facts for perle du Japon
PropertyValue
Headwordperle du Japon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁl dy ʒa.pɔ̃\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

perle du Japon is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for perle du Japon is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁl dy ʒa.pɔ̃\. 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: "Petites billes alimentaires confectionnées avec de la farine de manioc et parfois colorées.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for perle du Japon in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 perle du Japon, spelled P-E-R-L-E- -D-U- -J-A-P-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petites billes alimentaires confectionnées avec de la farine de manioc et parfois colorées.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "perle du Japon"?
"perle du Japon" is spelled P-E-R-L-E- -D-U- -J-A-P-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁl dy ʒa.pɔ̃\.
What does "perle du Japon" mean?
As a noun, "perle du Japon" means: Petites billes alimentaires confectionnées avec de la farine de manioc et parfois colorées.
How do you pronounce "perle du Japon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "perle du Japon" is \pɛʁl dy ʒa.pɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "perle du Japon" come from?
"perle du Japon" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.