pois de terre
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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pois de terre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Une plante herbacée de la famille des Fabacées (Fabaceae), originaire d'Afrique occidentale, aux feuilles trifoliées, elliptiques et allongées, qui est largement cultivée pour ses graines ressembla...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pois de terre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for pois de terre is 13 letters long, classified as anoun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pois 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 pois de terre, spelled P-O-I-S- -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
- 1Une plante herbacée de la famille des Fabacées (Fabaceae), originaire d'Afrique occidentale, aux feuilles trifoliées, elliptiques et allongées, qui est largement cultivée pour ses graines ressemblant à des haricots et récoltées sous terre à l'instar des arachides (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc., 1981).
- 2Synonyme d'arachide (Arachis hypogaea L., 1753).
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