pois patate
\pwa pa.tat\
The verdict
“pois patate” 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nom vernaculaire de Sphenostylis stenocarpa, plante d’Afrique tropicale, de la famille des Fabacées (Fabaceae), cultivée pour ses tubercules comestibles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pois patate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa pa.tat\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pois patate” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pois patate is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwa pa.tat\. 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 patate 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 patate, spelled P-O-I-S- -P-A-T-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de Sphenostylis stenocarpa, plante d’Afrique tropicale, de la famille des Fabacées (Fabaceae), cultivée pour ses tubercules comestibles.
- 2Nom vernaculaire de Pachyrhizus erosus, plante mexicaine, de la famille des Fabacées (Fabaceae), cultivée pour ses tubercules comestibles qui se mangent crus. → voir jicama
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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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-I-S- -P-A-T-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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