banane de mer
\ba.nan də mɛʁ\
The verdict
“banane 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Une des espèces de poissons osseux allongés, argentés, à prognathisme supérieur et ayant une seule nageoire dorsale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banane de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.nan də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “banane de mer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for banane de mer is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.nan də mɛʁ\. 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for banane 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 banane de mer, spelled B-A-N-A-N-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
- 1Une des espèces de poissons osseux allongés, argentés, à prognathisme supérieur et ayant une seule nageoire dorsale.
- 2(Botanique) Dénomination commerciale de la carpobrotus rossii, espèce de plantes succulente originaire d’Australie dont les feuilles ont la forme de petites bananes.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-N-A-N-E- -D-E- -M-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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