mille marin

/\mil ma.ʁɛ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

mille marin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Unité de mesure de longueur (symbole M ou NM) ayant la valeur d’une minute de latitude à la surface de la Terre, maintenant définie comme 1,852 mètres exactement. Pronounced \mil ma.ʁɛ̃\.

Key facts for mille marin
PropertyValue
Headwordmille marin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mil ma.ʁɛ̃\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mille marin 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 mille marin is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mil ma.ʁɛ̃\. 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: "Unité de mesure de longueur (symbole M ou NM) ayant la valeur d’une minute de latitude à la surface de la Terre, maintenant définie comme 1,852 mètres exactement.".

No misspelling variants are generated for mille marin 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 mille marin, spelled M-I-L-L-E- -M-A-R-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Unité de mesure de longueur (symbole M ou NM) ayant la valeur d’une minute de latitude à la surface de la Terre, maintenant définie comme 1,852 mètres exactement.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mille marin"?
"mille marin" is spelled M-I-L-L-E- -M-A-R-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \mil ma.ʁɛ̃\.
What does "mille marin" mean?
As a noun, "mille marin" means: Unité de mesure de longueur (symbole M ou NM) ayant la valeur d’une minute de latitude à la surface de la Terre, maintenant définie comme 1,852 mètres exactement.
How do you pronounce "mille marin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mille marin" is \mil ma.ʁɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mille marin" 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.