pierre de lune

/\pjɛʁ də lyn\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pierre de lune is aFrenchnoun. It means: Variété d’adulaire ayant des reflets argentés ou bleuâtres, causés par le phénomène optique d’adularescence. Pronounced \pjɛʁ də lyn\.

Key facts for pierre de lune
PropertyValue
Headwordpierre de lune
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pjɛʁ də lyn\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pierre de lune 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 pierre de lune is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pjɛʁ də lyn\. 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: "Variété d’adulaire ayant des reflets argentés ou bleuâtres, causés par le phénomène optique d’adularescence.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Variété d’adulaire ayant des reflets argentés ou bleuâtres, causés par le phénomène optique d’adularescence.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pierre de lune"?
"pierre de lune" is spelled P-I-E-R-R-E- -D-E- -L-U-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pjɛʁ də lyn\.
What does "pierre de lune" mean?
As a noun, "pierre de lune" means: Variété d’adulaire ayant des reflets argentés ou bleuâtres, causés par le phénomène optique d’adularescence.
How do you pronounce "pierre de lune"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pierre de lune" is \pjɛʁ də lyn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pierre de lune" come from?
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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.