mal de mer
\mal də mɛʁ\
The verdict
“mal 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
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nausée qui apparaît lors d’un déplacement en bateau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mal de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mal de mer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mal de mer is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mal 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: "Nausée qui apparaît lors d’un déplacement en bateau.".
mal de mer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mal de mer, spelled M-A-L- -D-E- -M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nausée qui apparaît lors d’un déplacement en bateau.
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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.
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Using “mal de mer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-L- -D-E- -M-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mal də mɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.