pleine lune

/\plɛn lyn\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

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pleine lune is aFrenchnoun. It means: Phase du cycle lunaire au cours duquel la lune apparaît dans sa totalité. Pronounced \plɛn lyn\.

Key facts for pleine lune
PropertyValue
Headwordpleine lune
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\plɛn lyn\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pleine lune is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pleine lune is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɛn 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: "Phase du cycle lunaire au cours duquel la lune apparaît dans sa totalité.".

No misspelling variants are generated for pleine lune 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 pleine lune, spelled P-L-E-I-N-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
    Phase du cycle lunaire au cours duquel la lune apparaît dans sa totalité.

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How do you spell "pleine lune"?
"pleine lune" is spelled P-L-E-I-N-E- -L-U-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \plɛn lyn\.
What does "pleine lune" mean?
As a noun, "pleine lune" means: Phase du cycle lunaire au cours duquel la lune apparaît dans sa totalité.
How do you pronounce "pleine lune"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pleine lune" is \plɛn lyn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pleine lune" come from?
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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.