corne de brume

/\kɔʁn də bʁym\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

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corne de brume is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument de signalisation maritime, émettant des signaux sonores par temps de brume. Pronounced \kɔʁn də bʁym\.

Key facts for corne de brume
PropertyValue
Headwordcorne de brume
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔʁn də bʁym\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

corne de brume 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 corne de brume is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔʁn də bʁym\. 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: "Instrument de signalisation maritime, émettant des signaux sonores par temps de brume.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for corne de brume 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 corne de brume, spelled C-O-R-N-E- -D-E- -B-R-U-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrument de signalisation maritime, émettant des signaux sonores par temps de brume.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "corne de brume"?
"corne de brume" is spelled C-O-R-N-E- -D-E- -B-R-U-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔʁn də bʁym\.
What does "corne de brume" mean?
As a noun, "corne de brume" means: Instrument de signalisation maritime, émettant des signaux sonores par temps de brume.
How do you pronounce "corne de brume"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "corne de brume" is \kɔʁn də bʁym\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "corne de brume" come from?
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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.