poivre d’âne
\pwavʁ d‿an\
The verdict
“poivre d’âne” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des noms donnés à la sarriette (Satureja spp.) du fait de la saveur piquante de ses feuilles fraîches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poivre-d-ane · poivre d’âne · French
poivre d’âne · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poivre d’âne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwavʁ d‿an\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
poivre d’âne is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pwavʁ d‿an\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un des noms donnés à la sarriette (Satureja spp.) du fait de la saveur piquante de ses feuilles fraîches.".
poivre d’âne has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is poivre d’âne, spelled P-O-I-V-R-E- -D-’-Â-N-E.
Definition
- 1Un des noms donnés à la sarriette (Satureja spp.) du fait de la saveur piquante de ses feuilles fraîches.
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.