hirondelle de mer

/\i.ʁɔ̃.dɛl də mɛʁ\/ noun

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Language

French

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hirondelle de mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sterne pierregarin (Sterna hirundo). Pronounced \i.ʁɔ̃.dɛl də mɛʁ\.

Key facts for hirondelle de mer
PropertyValue
Headwordhirondelle de mer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.ʁɔ̃.dɛl də mɛʁ\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hirondelle de mer is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for hirondelle de mer is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.ʁɔ̃.dɛl də mɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hirondelle de mer 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 hirondelle de mer, spelled H-I-R-O-N-D-E-L-L-E- -D-E- -M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sterne pierregarin (Sterna hirundo).
  2. 2
    Poisson volant (Exocoetidae).
  3. 3
    Castagnole (Brama rayi), grande castagnole (Brama brama).
  4. 4
    Castagnole, castagnole noire (Chromis chromis)
  5. 5
    Trigle hirondelle, trigle hirondelle de mer (Trigla hirundo) ou (Trigla lucerna) ou (Chelidonichthys lucernus).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hirondelle de mer"?
"hirondelle de mer" is spelled H-I-R-O-N-D-E-L-L-E- -D-E- -M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \i.ʁɔ̃.dɛl də mɛʁ\.
What does "hirondelle de mer" mean?
As a noun, "hirondelle de mer" means: Sterne pierregarin (Sterna hirundo).
How do you pronounce "hirondelle de mer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hirondelle de mer" is \i.ʁɔ̃.dɛl də mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hirondelle de mer" come from?
"hirondelle de mer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.