hémisphère Sud
\e.mis.fɛʁ syd\
The verdict
“hémisphère Sud” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moitié de la Terre qui s’étend entre l’équateur et le pôle Sud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hemisphere-sud · hémisphère Sud · French
hémisphère Sud · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hémisphère Sud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.mis.fɛʁ syd\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
hémisphère Sud is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.mis.fɛʁ syd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hémisphère Sud, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hémisphère Sud, spelled H-É-M-I-S-P-H-È-R-E- -S-U-D.
Definition
- 1Moitié de la Terre qui s’étend entre l’équateur et le pôle Sud.
- 2Moitié d’un astre qui s’étend entre l’équateur et le pôle Sud.
- 3Moitié de la sphère céleste qui s’étend entre l’équateur céleste et le pôle Sud céleste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hémisphère Sud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Apparue d’abord dans l’hémisphère Sud, la « grande comète de 1881 » fut observée le 30 juin 1881 par Jules Janssen à l’observatoire de Meudon.
Il navigue aussi bien dans l’hémisphère Sud que dans l’hémisphère Nord, sur les célèbres navires le Français puis surtout le Pourquoi-Pas ? …
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.