infanterie de marine
The verdict
“infanterie de marine” 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
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Troupes terrestres embarquées sur des vaisseaux militaires pour les défendre (ou infanterie traditionnelle conservant ce nom par tradition).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infanterie de marine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fɑ̃t.ʁi də ma.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “infanterie de marine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for infanterie de marine is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.fɑ̃t.ʁi də ma.ʁin\. 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: "Troupes terrestres embarquées sur des vaisseaux militaires pour les défendre (ou infanterie traditionnelle conservant ce nom par tradition).".
No misspelling variants are generated for infanterie de marine 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 infanterie de marine, spelled I-N-F-A-N-T-E-R-I-E- -D-E- -M-A-R-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Troupes terrestres embarquées sur des vaisseaux militaires pour les défendre (ou infanterie traditionnelle conservant ce nom par tradition).
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- The one correct French spelling is I-N-F-A-N-T-E-R-I-E- -D-E- -M-A-R-I-N-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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