pomme de pin

/\pɔm də pɛ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

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pomme de pin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Strobile femelle du pin, dont la graine (ou pignon) est comestible. Pronounced \pɔm də pɛ̃\.

Key facts for pomme de pin
PropertyValue
Headwordpomme de pin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔm də pɛ̃\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pomme de pin is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pomme de pin is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔm də pɛ̃\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pomme de pin in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 pomme de pin, spelled P-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -P-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Strobile femelle du pin, dont la graine (ou pignon) est comestible.
  2. 2
    Meuble héraldique représentant le fruit du même nom dans les armoiries, qui peut apparaître seule ou sur un pin quand il est fruité, et qui est généralement représentée pédoncule vers la pointe (si le pédoncule est vers le chef, on la dit alors versée ou renversée). À rapprocher de gland et pomme.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pomme de pin"?
"pomme de pin" is spelled P-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -P-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔm də pɛ̃\.
What does "pomme de pin" mean?
As a noun, "pomme de pin" means: Strobile femelle du pin, dont la graine (ou pignon) est comestible.
How do you pronounce "pomme de pin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pomme de pin" is \pɔm də pɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pomme de pin" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.