petite centaurée

/\pə.tit sɑ̃.to.ʁe\/ noun

Letters

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Language

French

word origin

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petite centaurée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Genre de Gentianacées, petites plantes herbacées à feuilles entières opposées, à fleurs roses ou jaunes. Le nom scientifique du genre est : Centaurium. Pronounced \pə.tit sɑ̃.to.ʁe\.

Key facts for petite centaurée
PropertyValue
Headwordpetite centaurée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pə.tit sɑ̃.to.ʁe\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

petite centaurée 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 petite centaurée is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pə.tit sɑ̃.to.ʁe\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for petite centaurée 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 petite centaurée, spelled P-E-T-I-T-E- -C-E-N-T-A-U-R-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Genre de Gentianacées, petites plantes herbacées à feuilles entières opposées, à fleurs roses ou jaunes. Le nom scientifique du genre est : Centaurium.
  2. 2
    Synonyme de petite centaurée commune (espèce de plantes).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "petite centaurée"?
"petite centaurée" is spelled P-E-T-I-T-E- -C-E-N-T-A-U-R-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pə.tit sɑ̃.to.ʁe\.
What does "petite centaurée" mean?
As a noun, "petite centaurée" means: Genre de Gentianacées, petites plantes herbacées à feuilles entières opposées, à fleurs roses ou jaunes. Le nom scientifique du genre est : Centaurium.
How do you pronounce "petite centaurée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "petite centaurée" is \pə.tit sɑ̃.to.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "petite centaurée" come from?
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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.