baie de Somme
\bɛ də sɔm\
The verdict
“baie de Somme” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Située en France, en Picardie précisément, la baie de Somme, donnant sur la Manche, s'étend sur 70 km² entre la pointe du Hourdel au sud et la pointe de Saint Quentin en Tourmont au nord.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baie de Somme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛ də sɔm\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baie de Somme” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baie de Somme is 13 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ də sɔm\. 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: "Située en France, en Picardie précisément, la baie de Somme, donnant sur la Manche, s'étend sur 70 km² entre la pointe du Hourdel au sud et la pointe de Saint Quentin en Tourmont au nord.".
No misspelling variants are generated for baie de Somme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 baie de Somme, spelled B-A-I-E- -D-E- -S-O-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Située en France, en Picardie précisément, la baie de Somme, donnant sur la Manche, s'étend sur 70 km² entre la pointe du Hourdel au sud et la pointe de Saint Quentin en Tourmont au nord.
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.
Cite this page
Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY-SA). Copy the citation:
PlainSpell, “baie de Somme, French word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/fr/mot/baie-de-somme
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "baie de Somme"?
What does "baie de Somme" mean?
How do you pronounce "baie de Somme"?
What language does "baie de Somme" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Using “baie de Somme”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-I-E- -D-E- -S-O-M-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɛ də sɔm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: