mer de brouillard
\mɛʁ də bʁu.jaʁ\
The verdict
“mer de brouillard” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Mer de nuages sans ondulation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mer de brouillard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ də bʁu.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mer de brouillard” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mer de brouillard is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʁ də bʁu.jaʁ\. 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: "Mer de nuages sans ondulation.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mer de brouillard 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 mer de brouillard, spelled M-E-R- -D-E- -B-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mer de nuages sans ondulation.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is M-E-R- -D-E- -B-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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