mer de sable

/\mɛʁ də sabl\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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similar word pairs

mer de sable is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vaste étendue de terre couverte de sable où les dunes jouent le rôle de vagues. Pronounced \mɛʁ də sabl\.

Key facts for mer de sable
PropertyValue
Headwordmer de sable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɛʁ də sabl\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mer de sable is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mer de sable is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʁ də sabl\. 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: "Vaste étendue de terre couverte de sable où les dunes jouent le rôle de vagues.".

No misspelling variants are generated for mer de sable 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 sable, spelled M-E-R- -D-E- -S-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vaste étendue de terre couverte de sable où les dunes jouent le rôle de vagues.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mer de sable"?
"mer de sable" is spelled M-E-R- -D-E- -S-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛʁ də sabl\.
What does "mer de sable" mean?
As a noun, "mer de sable" means: Vaste étendue de terre couverte de sable où les dunes jouent le rôle de vagues.
How do you pronounce "mer de sable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mer de sable" is \mɛʁ də sabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mer de sable" come from?
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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.