mer de la Tranquillité
The verdict
“mer de la Tranquillité” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Une des mers lunaires, site en 1969 du premier alunissage humain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mer de la Tranquillité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ də la tʁɑ̃.ki.li.te\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mer de la Tranquillité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mer de la Tranquillité is 22 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʁ də la tʁɑ̃.ki.li.te\. 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: "Une des mers lunaires, site en 1969 du premier alunissage humain.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mer de la Tranquillité 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 la Tranquillité, spelled M-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -T-R-A-N-Q-U-I-L-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Une des mers lunaires, site en 1969 du premier alunissage humain.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -T-R-A-N-Q-U-I-L-L-I-T-É — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛʁ də la tʁɑ̃.ki.li.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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