champ de mines

/\ʃɑ̃ də min\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

champ de mines is aFrenchnoun. It means: Zone terrestre, marine ou sous-marine dans laquelle des mines ont été placées, dans un but défensif (protection de site, de voie de communication etc.) ou tactique (harcèlement, détournement d’itin... Pronounced \ʃɑ̃ də min\.

Key facts for champ de mines
PropertyValue
Headwordchamp de mines
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɑ̃ də min\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

champ de mines is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for champ de mines is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɑ̃ də min\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for champ de mines in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 champ de mines, spelled C-H-A-M-P- -D-E- -M-I-N-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Zone terrestre, marine ou sous-marine dans laquelle des mines ont été placées, dans un but défensif (protection de site, de voie de communication etc.) ou tactique (harcèlement, détournement d’itinéraire).
  2. 2
    Chose compliquée, qui pose plein de problèmes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "champ de mines"?
"champ de mines" is spelled C-H-A-M-P- -D-E- -M-I-N-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɑ̃ də min\.
What does "champ de mines" mean?
As a noun, "champ de mines" means: Zone terrestre, marine ou sous-marine dans laquelle des mines ont été placées, dans un but défensif (protection de site, de voie de communication etc.) ou tactique (harcèlement, détournement d’itin...
How do you pronounce "champ de mines"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "champ de mines" is \ʃɑ̃ də min\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "champ de mines" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.