île Maurice

/\il mɔ.ʁis\/ name

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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île Maurice is aFrenchname. It means: Île de l’océan Indien dans l’archipel des Mascareignes, principale île de la République de Maurice. Pronounced \il mɔ.ʁis\.

Key facts for île Maurice
PropertyValue
Headwordîle Maurice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\il mɔ.ʁis\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

île Maurice 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 île Maurice is 11 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \il mɔ.ʁis\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for île Maurice 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 île Maurice, spelled Î-L-E- -M-A-U-R-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Île de l’océan Indien dans l’archipel des Mascareignes, principale île de la République de Maurice.
  2. 2
    République de Maurice dont la capitale est Port-Louis.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "île Maurice"?
"île Maurice" is spelled Î-L-E- -M-A-U-R-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \il mɔ.ʁis\.
What does "île Maurice" mean?
As a name, "île Maurice" means: Île de l’océan Indien dans l’archipel des Mascareignes, principale île de la République de Maurice.
How do you pronounce "île Maurice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "île Maurice" is \il mɔ.ʁis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "île Maurice" come from?
"île Maurice" 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.