bain de mer
The verdict
“bain de mer” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Fait de se baigner totalement ou en partie dans la mer, et de pouvoir ainsi profiter des vagues et de la spécificité de l’eau marine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bain de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ̃ də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bain de mer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bain de mer is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ̃ də mɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bain de mer 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 bain de mer, spelled B-A-I-N- -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
- 1Fait de se baigner totalement ou en partie dans la mer, et de pouvoir ainsi profiter des vagues et de la spécificité de l’eau marine.
- 2Type de chaussure imperméable.
- 3Type de construction individuelle à vocation balnéaire.
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Using “bain de mer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-I-N- -D-E- -M-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɛ̃ də mɛʁ\ (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
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