zafferano

/\d͡zaf.fe.ˈra.no\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

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zafferano is aFrenchnoun. It means: Safran, plante (Crocus sativus) de la famille des iridacées qui serait originaire du Népal et dont on extrait une épice. Pronounced \d͡zaf.fe.ˈra.no\.

Key facts for zafferano
PropertyValue
Headwordzafferano
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\d͡zaf.fe.ˈra.no\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

zafferano 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 zafferano is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \d͡zaf.fe.ˈra.no\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zafferano 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 zafferano, spelled Z-A-F-F-E-R-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Safran, plante (Crocus sativus) de la famille des iridacées qui serait originaire du Népal et dont on extrait une épice.
  2. 2
    Safran, épice tirée des stigmates d’une espèce de crocus. C’est à la fois un pigment aromatique et une épice colorée, qui n’a pas beaucoup de goût mais qui dégage un parfum délicieux. Cette épice est aussi appelée « l’or rouge ».
  3. 3
    Safran, couleur jaune soutenu tirant sur l’orangé. #F3D617
  4. 4
    Safran, préparation médicinale composée des parties de cette plante et utilisée comme stimulant.
  5. 5
    Goéland brun, espèce d’oiseau palmipède marin, grand, de la côte atlantique en Europe, qui ressemble au goéland marin, mais plus petit, aux ailes et au dos gris foncé ou noirs et aux pattes jaunâtres.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "zafferano"?
"zafferano" is spelled Z-A-F-F-E-R-A-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is \d͡zaf.fe.ˈra.no\.
What does "zafferano" mean?
As a noun, "zafferano" means: Safran, plante (Crocus sativus) de la famille des iridacées qui serait originaire du Népal et dont on extrait une épice.
How do you pronounce "zafferano"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "zafferano" is \d͡zaf.fe.ˈra.no\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "zafferano" 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.