aigue-marine
\ɛɡ.ma.ʁin\
The verdict
“aigue-marine” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variété de béryl transparente, de couleur bleu clair évoquant l’eau de mer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aigue-marine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.ma.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aigue-marine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aigue-marine is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛɡ.ma.ʁin\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Zero misspellings are on record for aigue-marine in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aigue-marine, spelled A-I-G-U-E---M-A-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Variété de béryl transparente, de couleur bleu clair évoquant l’eau de mer.
- 2Nom donné par les lapidaires à différentes autres pierres (l’utilisation commerciale de ces noms est interdite en France) :
This word in other languages
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 “aigue-marine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-I-G-U-E---M-A-R-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛɡ.ma.ʁin\ (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.