mer de nuages
\mɛʁ də nɥaʒ\
The verdict
“mer de nuages” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ensemble compact de nuages aperçus depuis le dessus et dont la surface supérieure relativement uniforme peut comporter des ondulations de longueurs très diverses rappelant des vagues.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mer de nuages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ də nɥaʒ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mer de nuages” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mer de nuages is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʁ də nɥaʒ\. 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: "Ensemble compact de nuages aperçus depuis le dessus et dont la surface supérieure relativement uniforme peut comporter des ondulations de longueurs très diverses rappelant des vagues.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mer de nuages 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 nuages, spelled M-E-R- -D-E- -N-U-A-G-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble compact de nuages aperçus depuis le dessus et dont la surface supérieure relativement uniforme peut comporter des ondulations de longueurs très diverses rappelant des vagues.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-E-R- -D-E- -N-U-A-G-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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