aigue-marine
\ɛɡ.ma.ʁin\
The verdict
“aigue-marine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de béryl transparente, de couleur bleu clair évoquant l’eau de mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aigue-marine · aigue-marine · French
aigue-marine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" 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 | aigue-marine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.ma.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
aigue-marine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛɡ.ma.ʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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) :
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aigue-marine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une belle aigue-marine.
Des aigues-marines.
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.