concombre de mer

/\kɔ̃.kɔ̃.bʁə də mɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

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concombre de mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: nom vernaculaire synonyme de l’holothurie. Pronounced \kɔ̃.kɔ̃.bʁə də mɛʁ\.

Key facts for concombre de mer
PropertyValue
Headwordconcombre de mer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.kɔ̃.bʁə də mɛʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

concombre 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 concombre de mer is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.kɔ̃.bʁə 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 concombre 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 concombre de mer, spelled C-O-N-C-O-M-B-R-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

  1. 1
    nom vernaculaire synonyme de l’holothurie.
  2. 2
    Me disputer, ça jamais, toute ma vie j’ai appris à m’écraser, je suis pire qu’un concombre des mers […]. — (Marie Desplechin, Nous entrerons dans la carrière, nouvelle, supplément au magazine « Elle », 1999, page 4.)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "concombre de mer"?
"concombre de mer" is spelled C-O-N-C-O-M-B-R-E- -D-E- -M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.kɔ̃.bʁə də mɛʁ\.
What does "concombre de mer" mean?
As a noun, "concombre de mer" means: nom vernaculaire synonyme de l’holothurie.
How do you pronounce "concombre de mer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "concombre de mer" is \kɔ̃.kɔ̃.bʁə də mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.