mur de Berlin

/\myʁ də bɛʁ.lɛ̃\/ noun

Letters

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Language

French

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mur de Berlin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dispositif de séparation physique de la capitale allemande de 1961 à 1989. Pronounced \myʁ də bɛʁ.lɛ̃\.

Key facts for mur de Berlin
PropertyValue
Headwordmur de Berlin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\myʁ də bɛʁ.lɛ̃\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mur de Berlin 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 mur de Berlin is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \myʁ də bɛʁ.lɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mur de Berlin 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 mur de Berlin, spelled M-U-R- -D-E- -B-E-R-L-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dispositif de séparation physique de la capitale allemande de 1961 à 1989.
  2. 2
    Tout dispositif de ce type ailleurs dans le monde.
  3. 3
    Dispositif non-physique ou psychologique de ce type.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mur de Berlin"?
"mur de Berlin" is spelled M-U-R- -D-E- -B-E-R-L-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \myʁ də bɛʁ.lɛ̃\.
What does "mur de Berlin" mean?
As a noun, "mur de Berlin" means: Dispositif de séparation physique de la capitale allemande de 1961 à 1989.
How do you pronounce "mur de Berlin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mur de Berlin" is \myʁ də bɛʁ.lɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mur de Berlin" come from?
"mur de Berlin" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.