poire de terre
\pwaʁ də tɛʁ\
The verdict
“poire de terre” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plante vivace tubéreuse de la famille des Astéracées, proche parente du tournesol et du topinambour originaire d’Amérique du Sud, cultivée pour ses tubercules comestibles croquants et au goût sucré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poire de terre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwaʁ də tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poire de terre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poire de terre is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwaʁ də tɛʁ\. 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 vivace tubéreuse de la famille des Astéracées, proche parente du tournesol et du topinambour originaire d’Amérique du Sud, cultivée pour ses tubercules comestibles croquants et au goût sucré.".
No misspelling variants are generated for poire de terre 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 poire de terre, spelled P-O-I-R-E- -D-E- -T-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante vivace tubéreuse de la famille des Astéracées, proche parente du tournesol et du topinambour originaire d’Amérique du Sud, cultivée pour ses tubercules comestibles croquants et au goût sucré.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-I-R-E- -D-E- -T-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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