queue-d’aronde
\kø.d‿a.ʁɔ̃d\
The verdict
“queue-d’aronde” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tenon, pièce de bois taillée par un bout en forme de queue d’hirondelle et qu’on assemble avec une autre par le moyen d’une entaille de la même forme, nommée mortaise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | queue-d’aronde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kø.d‿a.ʁɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “queue-d’aronde” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
queue-d’aronde is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kø.d‿a.ʁɔ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for queue-d’aronde, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is queue-d’aronde, spelled Q-U-E-U-E---D-’-A-R-O-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Tenon, pièce de bois taillée par un bout en forme de queue d’hirondelle et qu’on assemble avec une autre par le moyen d’une entaille de la même forme, nommée mortaise.
- 2Nom commun de la fléchière ou sagittaire, plante du genre Sagittaria, parfois nommée queue-d’hironde.
This word in other languages
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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Using “queue-d’aronde”
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-U-E---D-’-A-R-O-N-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kø.d‿a.ʁɔ̃d\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.