mer des Caraïbes
The verdict
“mer des Caraïbes” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Mer marginale de l’océan Atlantique limitée par Cuba au nord-ouest, par l’île d’Hispaniola et Porto Rico au nord, par les Petites Antilles jusqu'à Trinité-et-Tobago à l'est, par le Venezuela contin...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mer des Caraïbes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ de ka.ʁa.ib\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mer des Caraïbes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mer des Caraïbes is 16 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʁ de ka.ʁa.ib\. 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 marginale de l’océan Atlantique limitée par Cuba au nord-ouest, par l’île d’Hispaniola et Porto Rico au nord, par les Petites Antilles jusqu'à Trinité-et-Tobago à l'est, par le Venezuela contin...".
No misspelling variants are generated for mer des Caraïbes 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 des Caraïbes, spelled M-E-R- -D-E-S- -C-A-R-A-Ï-B-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mer marginale de l’océan Atlantique limitée par Cuba au nord-ouest, par l’île d’Hispaniola et Porto Rico au nord, par les Petites Antilles jusqu'à Trinité-et-Tobago à l'est, par le Venezuela continental et la Colombie au sud, et par les côtes de l'Amérique centrale à l'ouest.
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Using “mer des Caraïbes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-R- -D-E-S- -C-A-R-A-Ï-B-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛʁ de ka.ʁa.ib\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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