ortie de mer
\ɔʁ.ti də mɛʁ\
The verdict
“ortie de mer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Méduse, actinie ou autre cœlentéré, qui sécrète un liquide urticant, produisant sur la peau l’effet de l’ortie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ortie de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.ti də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ortie de mer” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ortie de mer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔʁ.ti də mɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ortie de mer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ortie de mer, spelled O-R-T-I-E- -D-E- -M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Méduse, actinie ou autre cœlentéré, qui sécrète un liquide urticant, produisant sur la peau l’effet de l’ortie.
- 2Méduse, actinie ou autre cœlentéré, qui sécrète un liquide urticant, produisant sur la peau l’effet de l’ortie.
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 “ortie de mer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-R-T-I-E- -D-E- -M-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔʁ.ti də mɛʁ\ (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.