élyme des sables
\e.lim dɛ sabl\
The verdict
“élyme des sables” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plante de la famille de la famille des Poaceae, qui pousse sur les dunes près de la mer, de nom scientifique Leymus arenarius.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élyme des sables |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.lim dɛ sabl\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “élyme des sables” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for élyme des sables is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.lim dɛ sabl\. 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: "Plante de la famille de la famille des Poaceae, qui pousse sur les dunes près de la mer, de nom scientifique Leymus arenarius.".
No misspelling variants are generated for élyme des sables 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 élyme des sables, spelled É-L-Y-M-E- -D-E-S- -S-A-B-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille de la famille des Poaceae, qui pousse sur les dunes près de la mer, de nom scientifique Leymus arenarius.
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