mer Égée
\mɛ.ʁ‿e.ʒe\
The verdict
“mer Égée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mer épicontinentale du bassin méditerranéen, située entre l’Europe et l’Asie. Elle s’étend de la Crète et Rhodes au sud jusqu’à l’entrée du détroit des Dardanelles au nord, et entre la Grèce à l’ou...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mer Égée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.ʁ‿e.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mer Égée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mer Égée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɛ.ʁ‿e.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mer épicontinentale du bassin méditerranéen, située entre l’Europe et l’Asie. Elle s’étend de la Crète et Rhodes au sud jusqu’à l’entrée du détroit des Dardanelles au nord, et entre la Grèce à l’ou...".
Zero misspellings are on record for mer Égée in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mer Égée, spelled M-E-R- -É-G-É-E.
Definition
- 1Mer épicontinentale du bassin méditerranéen, située entre l’Europe et l’Asie. Elle s’étend de la Crète et Rhodes au sud jusqu’à l’entrée du détroit des Dardanelles au nord, et entre la Grèce à l’ouest et la Turquie à l’est.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mer Égée”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-E-R- -É-G-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛ.ʁ‿e.ʒe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.