mer Rouge
The verdict
“mer Rouge” 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
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Mer intercontinentale de l’océan Indien séparant l’Afrique de l’Asie, limitée au sud par le golfe d'Aden et au nord par les golfes de Suez et d'Aqaba.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mer Rouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mer Rouge” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mer Rouge is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʁ ʁuʒ\. 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 intercontinentale de l’océan Indien séparant l’Afrique de l’Asie, limitée au sud par le golfe d'Aden et au nord par les golfes de Suez et d'Aqaba.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mer Rouge 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 Rouge, spelled M-E-R- -R-O-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mer intercontinentale de l’océan Indien séparant l’Afrique de l’Asie, limitée au sud par le golfe d'Aden et au nord par les golfes de Suez et d'Aqaba.
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Using “mer Rouge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-R- -R-O-U-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛʁ ʁuʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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