clown de mer

/\klun də mɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

clown de mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Macareux moine (oiseau). Pronounced \klun də mɛʁ\.

Key facts for clown de mer
PropertyValue
Headwordclown de mer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\klun də mɛʁ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for clown de mer is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \klun də mɛʁ\. 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: "Macareux moine (oiseau).".

No misspelling variants are generated for clown 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 clown de mer, spelled C-L-O-W-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

  1. 1
    Macareux moine (oiseau).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clown de mer"?
"clown de mer" is spelled C-L-O-W-N- -D-E- -M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \klun də mɛʁ\.
What does "clown de mer" mean?
As a noun, "clown de mer" means: Macareux moine (oiseau).
How do you pronounce "clown de mer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clown de mer" is \klun də mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clown de mer" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.