sorgho commun

/\sɔʁ.ɡo kɔ.mœ̃\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

sorgho commun is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante monocotylédone de la famille des poacées (graminées), originaire d'Afrique cultivée pour son grain (Sorghum bicolor). Pronounced \sɔʁ.ɡo kɔ.mœ̃\.

Key facts for sorgho commun
PropertyValue
Headwordsorgho commun
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔʁ.ɡo kɔ.mœ̃\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sorgho commun 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 sorgho commun is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔʁ.ɡo kɔ.mœ̃\. 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 monocotylédone de la famille des poacées (graminées), originaire d'Afrique cultivée pour son grain (Sorghum bicolor).".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sorgho commun 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 sorgho commun, spelled S-O-R-G-H-O- -C-O-M-M-U-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plante monocotylédone de la famille des poacées (graminées), originaire d'Afrique cultivée pour son grain (Sorghum bicolor).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sorgho commun"?
"sorgho commun" is spelled S-O-R-G-H-O- -C-O-M-M-U-N. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔʁ.ɡo kɔ.mœ̃\.
What does "sorgho commun" mean?
As a noun, "sorgho commun" means: Plante monocotylédone de la famille des poacées (graminées), originaire d'Afrique cultivée pour son grain (Sorghum bicolor).
How do you pronounce "sorgho commun"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sorgho commun" is \sɔʁ.ɡo kɔ.mœ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sorgho commun" come from?
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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.