pinces de homard
The verdict
“pinces de homard” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Plante dicotylédone de la famille des Fabaceae, de nom scientifique Clianthus puniceus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pinces de homard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃s də o.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pinces de homard” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pinces de homard is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ̃s də o.maʁ\. 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: "Plante dicotylédone de la famille des Fabaceae, de nom scientifique Clianthus puniceus.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pinces de homard 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 pinces de homard, spelled P-I-N-C-E-S- -D-E- -H-O-M-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante dicotylédone de la famille des Fabaceae, de nom scientifique Clianthus puniceus.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-I-N-C-E-S- -D-E- -H-O-M-A-R-D — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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