pois chiche
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11 characters
Language
French
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pois chiche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante (Cicer arietinum) de la famille des Fabacées (ou Légumineuses), du genre des vesces, mais voisine du pois pour son usage culinaire et cultivée en zone méditerranéenne. Pronounced \pwɑ ʃiʃ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pois chiche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɑ ʃiʃ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for pois chiche is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɑ ʃiʃ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pois chiche 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 pois chiche, spelled P-O-I-S- -C-H-I-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante (Cicer arietinum) de la famille des Fabacées (ou Légumineuses), du genre des vesces, mais voisine du pois pour son usage culinaire et cultivée en zone méditerranéenne.
- 2Graine de cette plante, utilisée comme aliment.
- 3Tout objet de petite taille.
- 4Verrue.
- 5Personnage à qui on donne la réputation d’avoir le cerveau gros comme un pois chiche.
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