aigle de mer
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12 characters
Language
French
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aigle de mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Synonyme de pygargue (sens large) ou de pygargue à queue blanche (sens étroit) (oiseau). Pronounced \ɛ.ɡl(ə) də mɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aigle de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.ɡl(ə) də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for aigle de mer is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.ɡl(ə) də mɛʁ\. 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 aigle de mer 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 aigle de mer, spelled A-I-G-L-E- -D-E- -M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de pygargue (sens large) ou de pygargue à queue blanche (sens étroit) (oiseau).
- 2Un des noms d’un oiseau de proie diurne, le balbuzard (Pandion sp.).
- 3Un des noms de la Mourine (Mourina aquila L.), poisson fréquent sur les côtes d’Europe.
- 4Un des noms vernaculaires du maigre commun (Argyrosomus regius, Sciaena aquila) (poisson).
- 5Variante d’aigle de mer commun (poisson).
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