pois mange-tout

/\pwɑ mɑ̃ʒ.tu\/ noun

The verdict

“pois mange-tout” 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
15
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Gousse immature de Pisum sativum ssp. sativum f. macrocarpon qui est consommé comme légume.

Key facts for pois mange-tout
PropertyValue
Headwordpois mange-tout
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pwɑ mɑ̃ʒ.tu\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pois mange-tout” sits in French frequency

pois mange-tout falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pois mange-tout is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɑ mɑ̃ʒ.tu\. 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 mange-tout 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 mange-tout, spelled P-O-I-S- -M-A-N-G-E---T-O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gousse immature de Pisum sativum ssp. sativum f. macrocarpon qui est consommé comme légume.

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pois mange-tout"?
"pois mange-tout" is spelled P-O-I-S- -M-A-N-G-E---T-O-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pwɑ mɑ̃ʒ.tu\.
What does "pois mange-tout" mean?
As a noun, "pois mange-tout" means: Gousse immature de Pisum sativum ssp. sativum f. macrocarpon qui est consommé comme légume.
How do you pronounce "pois mange-tout"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pois mange-tout" is \pwɑ mɑ̃ʒ.tu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pois mange-tout" come from?
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Using “pois mange-tout”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is P-O-I-S- -M-A-N-G-E---T-O-U-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \pwɑ mɑ̃ʒ.tu\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.