prêle des champs
The verdict
“prêle des champs” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Plante de la famille des Equisetaceae, de nom scientifique Equisetum arvense.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prêle des champs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛl dɛ ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prêle des champs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prêle des champs is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɛl dɛ ʃɑ̃\. 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: "Plante de la famille des Equisetaceae, de nom scientifique Equisetum arvense.".
No misspelling variants are generated for prêle des champs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 prêle des champs, spelled P-R-Ê-L-E- -D-E-S- -C-H-A-M-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des Equisetaceae, de nom scientifique Equisetum arvense.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-Ê-L-E- -D-E-S- -C-H-A-M-P-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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