phragmite des joncs
The verdict
“phragmite des joncs” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Espèce de petit oiseau passereau, fauvette de marais de l’Ancien Monde, au dessus vert olive à brun rayé, au dessous clair, dont la tête est striée dessus et avec un sourcil clair.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phragmite des joncs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁaɡ.mit dɛ ʒɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “phragmite des joncs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for phragmite des joncs is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁaɡ.mit dɛ ʒɔ̃\. 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: "Espèce de petit oiseau passereau, fauvette de marais de l’Ancien Monde, au dessus vert olive à brun rayé, au dessous clair, dont la tête est striée dessus et avec un sourcil clair.".
No misspelling variants are generated for phragmite des joncs 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 phragmite des joncs, spelled P-H-R-A-G-M-I-T-E- -D-E-S- -J-O-N-C-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit oiseau passereau, fauvette de marais de l’Ancien Monde, au dessus vert olive à brun rayé, au dessous clair, dont la tête est striée dessus et avec un sourcil clair.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is P-H-R-A-G-M-I-T-E- -D-E-S- -J-O-N-C-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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