pommier de Sodome

/\pɔ.mje də sɔ.dɔm\/ noun

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pommier de Sodome is aFrenchnoun. It means: Un des nom usuel de Calotropis procera arbuste xérophile, de la famille des Apocynaceae, dont les graines à maturité sont surmontées d'aigrettes soyeuses. Très commun dans les régions arides d'Afri... Pronounced \pɔ.mje də sɔ.dɔm\.

Key facts for pommier de Sodome
PropertyValue
Headwordpommier de Sodome
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔ.mje də sɔ.dɔm\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pommier de Sodome 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 pommier de Sodome is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.mje də sɔ.dɔm\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Un des nom usuel de Calotropis procera arbuste xérophile, de la famille des Apocynaceae, dont les graines à maturité sont surmontées d'aigrettes soyeuses. Très commun dans les régions arides d'Afri...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pommier de Sodome 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 pommier de Sodome, spelled P-O-M-M-I-E-R- -D-E- -S-O-D-O-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Un des nom usuel de Calotropis procera arbuste xérophile, de la famille des Apocynaceae, dont les graines à maturité sont surmontées d'aigrettes soyeuses. Très commun dans les régions arides d'Afrique et du Moyen-Orient, ses grandes feuilles opposées, d'un gris-vert, portent un duvet blanc quand elles sont jeunes, les fruits verts sont comparables à des pommes ovales ou à des testicules. De nombreuses parties de l'arbre contiennent des toxines végétales (calotoxine, calotropine uscharine, voruscharine, etc.), en particulier le latex, ce qui ne l'empêche pas d'avoir de nombreuses utilisations, y compris médicinales.

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How do you spell "pommier de Sodome"?
"pommier de Sodome" is spelled P-O-M-M-I-E-R- -D-E- -S-O-D-O-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔ.mje də sɔ.dɔm\.
What does "pommier de Sodome" mean?
As a noun, "pommier de Sodome" means: Un des nom usuel de Calotropis procera arbuste xérophile, de la famille des Apocynaceae, dont les graines à maturité sont surmontées d'aigrettes soyeuses. Très commun dans les régions arides d'Afri...
How do you pronounce "pommier de Sodome"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pommier de Sodome" is \pɔ.mje də sɔ.dɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.