pois gourmand
The verdict
“pois gourmand” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Gousse immature de Pisum sativum ssp. sativum f. macrocarpon qui est consommé comme légume.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pois gourmand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɑ ɡuʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pois gourmand” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pois gourmand is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɑ ɡuʁ.mɑ̃\. 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: "Gousse immature de Pisum sativum ssp. sativum f. macrocarpon qui est consommé comme légume.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pois gourmand 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 gourmand, spelled P-O-I-S- -G-O-U-R-M-A-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gousse immature de Pisum sativum ssp. sativum f. macrocarpon qui est consommé comme légume.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “pois gourmand”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-I-S- -G-O-U-R-M-A-N-D — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pwɑ ɡuʁ.mɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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