lion de mer
The verdict
“lion de mer” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nom donné à plusieurs espèces d’animaux carnivores de la sous-famille des Otariinés dont le mâle présente la particularité de porter une crinière.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lion de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljɔ̃ də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lion de mer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lion de mer is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ljɔ̃ də mɛʁ\. 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: "Nom donné à plusieurs espèces d’animaux carnivores de la sous-famille des Otariinés dont le mâle présente la particularité de porter une crinière.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lion de mer 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 lion de mer, spelled L-I-O-N- -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
- 1Nom donné à plusieurs espèces d’animaux carnivores de la sous-famille des Otariinés dont le mâle présente la particularité de porter une crinière.
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Using “lion de mer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-I-O-N- -D-E- -M-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ljɔ̃ də mɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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