marais salant
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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marais salant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Saline située sur le littoral. Pronounced \ma.ʁɛ sa.lɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marais salant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁɛ sa.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for marais salant is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʁɛ sa.lɑ̃\. 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: "Saline située sur le littoral.".
No misspelling variants are generated for marais salant 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 marais salant, spelled M-A-R-A-I-S- -S-A-L-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Saline située sur le littoral.
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