verveine citronnelle
\vɛʁ.vɛn si.tʁɔ.nɛl\
The verdict
“verveine citronnelle” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plante à usage culinaire ou médicinal dont les feuilles ont un parfum de citron — Aloysia citriodora ^(Paláu - 1784).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verveine citronnelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.vɛn si.tʁɔ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “verveine citronnelle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for verveine citronnelle is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛʁ.vɛn si.tʁɔ.nɛl\. 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 à usage culinaire ou médicinal dont les feuilles ont un parfum de citron — Aloysia citriodora ^(Paláu - 1784).".
verveine citronnelle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 verveine citronnelle, spelled V-E-R-V-E-I-N-E- -C-I-T-R-O-N-N-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Plante à usage culinaire ou médicinal dont les feuilles ont un parfum de citron — Aloysia citriodora ^(Paláu - 1784).
Synonyms
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 “verveine citronnelle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-E-R-V-E-I-N-E- -C-I-T-R-O-N-N-E-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \vɛʁ.vɛn si.tʁɔ.nɛl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.