concombre de mer
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concombre de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.kɔ̃.bʁə də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1nom vernaculaire synonyme de l’holothurie.
- 2Me 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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