échelle de Beaufort
The verdict
“échelle de Beaufort” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Classification classique de la vitesse moyenne du vent sur une durée de dix minutes utilisée dans les milieux maritimes. Elle comporte 13 degrés (de 0 à 12).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échelle de Beaufort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃɛl də bo.fɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “échelle de Beaufort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for échelle de Beaufort is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʃɛl də bo.fɔʁ\. 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: "Classification classique de la vitesse moyenne du vent sur une durée de dix minutes utilisée dans les milieux maritimes. Elle comporte 13 degrés (de 0 à 12).".
No misspelling variants are generated for échelle de Beaufort 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 échelle de Beaufort, spelled É-C-H-E-L-L-E- -D-E- -B-E-A-U-F-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Classification classique de la vitesse moyenne du vent sur une durée de dix minutes utilisée dans les milieux maritimes. Elle comporte 13 degrés (de 0 à 12).
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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-H-E-L-L-E- -D-E- -B-E-A-U-F-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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