océan Pacifique
\ɔ.se.ɑ̃ pa.si.fik\
The verdict
“océan Pacifique” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grand océan entouré par les Amériques, l’Antarctique, l’Australie, la Nouvelle-Guinée et enfin l'Asie (selon l'Organisation hydrographique internationale).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | océan Pacifique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.se.ɑ̃ pa.si.fik\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “océan Pacifique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for océan Pacifique is 15 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.se.ɑ̃ pa.si.fik\. 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: "Grand océan entouré par les Amériques, l’Antarctique, l’Australie, la Nouvelle-Guinée et enfin l'Asie (selon l'Organisation hydrographique internationale).".
océan Pacifique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is océan Pacifique, spelled O-C-É-A-N- -P-A-C-I-F-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Grand océan entouré par les Amériques, l’Antarctique, l’Australie, la Nouvelle-Guinée et enfin l'Asie (selon l'Organisation hydrographique internationale).
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 “océan Pacifique”
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- The one correct French spelling is O-C-É-A-N- -P-A-C-I-F-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔ.se.ɑ̃ pa.si.fik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.