trèfle incarnat
The verdict
“trèfle incarnat” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Trifolium incarnatum, espèce du genre des trèfles. On le cultive en grand comme fourrage, il se consomme en vert.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trèfle incarnat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɛfl ɛ̃.kaʁ.na\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trèfle incarnat” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for trèfle incarnat is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɛfl ɛ̃.kaʁ.na\. 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: "Trifolium incarnatum, espèce du genre des trèfles. On le cultive en grand comme fourrage, il se consomme en vert.".
No misspelling variants are generated for trèfle incarnat 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 trèfle incarnat, spelled T-R-È-F-L-E- -I-N-C-A-R-N-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Trifolium incarnatum, espèce du genre des trèfles. On le cultive en grand comme fourrage, il se consomme en vert.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-R-È-F-L-E- -I-N-C-A-R-N-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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