tarte aux poils

/\taʁ.t‿o pwal\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

tarte aux poils is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sexe féminin. Pronounced \taʁ.t‿o pwal\.

Key facts for tarte aux poils
PropertyValue
Headwordtarte aux poils
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\taʁ.t‿o pwal\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tarte aux poils is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tarte aux poils is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \taʁ.t‿o pwal\. 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: "Sexe féminin.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tarte aux poils 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 tarte aux poils, spelled T-A-R-T-E- -A-U-X- -P-O-I-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sexe féminin.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tarte aux poils"?
"tarte aux poils" is spelled T-A-R-T-E- -A-U-X- -P-O-I-L-S. The IPA pronunciation is \taʁ.t‿o pwal\.
What does "tarte aux poils" mean?
As a noun, "tarte aux poils" means: Sexe féminin.
How do you pronounce "tarte aux poils"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tarte aux poils" is \taʁ.t‿o pwal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tarte aux poils" come from?
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Data Source: 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.