phragmite des joncs

/\fʁaɡ.mit dɛ ʒɔ̃\/ noun

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.

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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.

Key facts for phragmite des joncs
PropertyValue
Headwordphragmite des joncs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fʁaɡ.mit dɛ ʒɔ̃\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “phragmite des joncs” sits in French frequency

phragmite des joncs falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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.

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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "phragmite des joncs"?
"phragmite des joncs" is spelled P-H-R-A-G-M-I-T-E- -D-E-S- -J-O-N-C-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁaɡ.mit dɛ ʒɔ̃\.
What does "phragmite des joncs" mean?
As a noun, "phragmite des joncs" means: 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.
How do you pronounce "phragmite des joncs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "phragmite des joncs" is \fʁaɡ.mit dɛ ʒɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “phragmite des joncs”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Say it as \fʁaɡ.mit dɛ ʒɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.

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