pomme de terre
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14 characters
Language
French
word origin
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pomme de terre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Rhizome souterrain tubérisé de forme plus ou moins sphérique et cabossé, souvent un peu allongé et consommé comme légume. Pronounced \pɔm də tɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pomme de terre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔm də tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for pomme de terre is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔm də tɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pomme de terre 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 terre, spelled P-O-M-M-E- -D-E- -T-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rhizome souterrain tubérisé de forme plus ou moins sphérique et cabossé, souvent un peu allongé et consommé comme légume.
- 2Plante herbacée cultivée d’origine andine de la famille des solanacées dont la pomme de terre constitue le tubercule.
- 3Airelle rouge, fruit proche de la myrtille.
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