cochon de mer

/\kɔ.ʃɔ̃ də mɛʁ\/ noun

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Language

French

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cochon de mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom attribué au marsouin (mammifère marin). Pronounced \kɔ.ʃɔ̃ də mɛʁ\.

Key facts for cochon de mer
PropertyValue
Headwordcochon de mer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.ʃɔ̃ də mɛʁ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cochon de mer 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 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

  1. 1
    Nom attribué au marsouin (mammifère marin).
  2. 2
    Synonyme de phoque gris (carnivore marin).
  3. 3
    Nom attribué aux balistes (poissons).
  4. 4
    Synonyme d’humantin (poisson, requin).
  5. 5
    Surnom de la chélonée franche ou tortue verte.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cochon de mer"?
"cochon de mer" is spelled C-O-C-H-O-N- -D-E- -M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ʃɔ̃ də mɛʁ\.
What does "cochon de mer" mean?
As a noun, "cochon de mer" means: Nom attribué au marsouin (mammifère marin).
How do you pronounce "cochon de mer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cochon de mer" is \kɔ.ʃɔ̃ də mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cochon de mer" come from?
"cochon de mer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.