valériane officinale
\va.le.ʁjan‿ɔ.fi.si.nal\
The verdict
“valériane officinale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante de la famille des Caprifoliaceae (anciennement de la famille des Valerianaceae).
Corpus desk
Index FR-valeriane-officinale · valériane officinale · French
valériane officinale · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-10 10 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valériane officinale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.le.ʁjan‿ɔ.fi.si.nal\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
valériane officinale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.le.ʁjan‿ɔ.fi.si.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante de la famille des Caprifoliaceae (anciennement de la famille des Valerianaceae).".
No misspelling variants are generated for valériane officinale in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is valériane officinale, spelled V-A-L-É-R-I-A-N-E- -O-F-F-I-C-I-N-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des Caprifoliaceae (anciennement de la famille des Valerianaceae).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how valériane officinale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa racine [de la Valeriana celtica], d'une odeur moins forte, d'une saveur moins âcre et moins amère que celle de la valériane officinale, est en même temps plus aromatique.
Flore : Saule cendré, frêne à feuilles étroites, angélique sauvage, laîche à épis pendants, chanvre d’eau, renoncule rampante, gaillet croisette, prêle des champs, lathrée clandestine, valériane officinale, liseron des haies, reine-des-prés, iris des marais, salicaire commune, baldingère faux-roseau, grande consoude, orchidée abeille, orchidée pyramidale.
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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.