mer des Indes

/\mɛʁ de.z‿ɛ̃d\/ name

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

mer des Indes is aFrenchname. It means: Océan Indien. Pronounced \mɛʁ de.z‿ɛ̃d\.

Key facts for mer des Indes
PropertyValue
Headwordmer des Indes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\mɛʁ de.z‿ɛ̃d\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mer des Indes is 13 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʁ de.z‿ɛ̃d\. 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: "Océan Indien.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mer des Indes in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Indes, spelled M-E-R- -D-E-S- -I-N-D-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Océan Indien.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mer des Indes"?
"mer des Indes" is spelled M-E-R- -D-E-S- -I-N-D-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛʁ de.z‿ɛ̃d\.
What does "mer des Indes" mean?
As a name, "mer des Indes" means: Océan Indien.
How do you pronounce "mer des Indes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mer des Indes" is \mɛʁ de.z‿ɛ̃d\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mer des Indes" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.