pelote de mer
\pə.lɔt də mɛʁ\
The verdict
“pelote de mer” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Boule de couleur brune et de texture fibreuse formée des restes de posidonies qui s’accumulent sur les plages.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelote de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.lɔt də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pelote de mer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pelote de mer is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pə.lɔt də mɛʁ\. 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: "Boule de couleur brune et de texture fibreuse formée des restes de posidonies qui s’accumulent sur les plages.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pelote de mer 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 pelote de mer, spelled P-E-L-O-T-E- -D-E- -M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Boule de couleur brune et de texture fibreuse formée des restes de posidonies qui s’accumulent sur les plages.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-E-L-O-T-E- -D-E- -M-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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