éphéméride

/\e.fe.me.ʁid\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#60,498

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

éphéméride is aFrenchnoun. It means: Livre où se trouvent consignées pour une année les prévisions météorologiques. Pronounced \e.fe.me.ʁid\.

Key facts for éphéméride
PropertyValue
Headwordéphéméride
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.fe.me.ʁid\
Letters10
Frequency rank#60,498
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of éphéméride in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for éphéméride is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.fe.me.ʁid\. Corpus data places it at rank #60,498 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for éphéméride 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 éphéméride, spelled É-P-H-É-M-É-R-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Livre où se trouvent consignées pour une année les prévisions météorologiques.
  2. 2
    Livre ou calendrier dont on détache chaque jour une page et où, généralement, sont rappelés les évènements arrivés à la même date.
  3. 3
    Tables astronomiques par lesquelles on détermine, pour chaque jour, le lieu de chaque planète dans le zodiaque ou les heures des marées.

Frequency rank: #60,498 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "éphéméride"?
"éphéméride" is spelled É-P-H-É-M-É-R-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.fe.me.ʁid\.
What does "éphéméride" mean?
As a noun, "éphéméride" means: Livre où se trouvent consignées pour une année les prévisions météorologiques.
How do you pronounce "éphéméride"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "éphéméride" is \e.fe.me.ʁid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "éphéméride" 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.