pomme de pin
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pomme de pin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔm də pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Strobile femelle du pin, dont la graine (ou pignon) est comestible.
- 2Meuble 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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