cochon de mer
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13 characters
Language
French
word origin
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cochon de mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom attribué au marsouin (mammifère marin). Pronounced \kɔ.ʃɔ̃ də mɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cochon de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʃɔ̃ də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for cochon de mer is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʃɔ̃ də mɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cochon de mer 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 cochon de mer, spelled C-O-C-H-O-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
- 1Nom attribué au marsouin (mammifère marin).
- 2Synonyme de phoque gris (carnivore marin).
- 3Nom attribué aux balistes (poissons).
- 4Synonyme d’humantin (poisson, requin).
- 5Surnom de la chélonée franche ou tortue verte.
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