eau de merises
\o də mə.ʁiz\
The verdict
“eau de merises” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Espèce d’eau-de-vie obtenue par distillation du suc des merises.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eau de merises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o də mə.ʁiz\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eau de merises” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for eau de merises is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o də mə.ʁiz\. 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: "Espèce d’eau-de-vie obtenue par distillation du suc des merises.".
No misspelling variants are generated for eau de merises 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 eau de merises, spelled E-A-U- -D-E- -M-E-R-I-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’eau-de-vie obtenue par distillation du suc des merises.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is E-A-U- -D-E- -M-E-R-I-S-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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